On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <39796.1077013415_at_critter.freebsd.dk> > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > : Current our handing is that if it disappears, it's gone, if it comes > : back it's probably a new one anyway. > > Yes. If the hardware goes away and comes back, it can be very > difficult to know if you have the same hardware or different > hardware. This is less true of network cards, but definitely true of > CF cards (which can easily be identical from inspection, but have > different contents). The likes of ATA disks include serial numbers in words 10-19. These could be used to positively identify a drive when its availability has come into question. From what I recall, CF cards use an ATA-like command set. Wouldn't it be possible to get the serial number and model from them for positive identification? Regards, Andy > Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant > > Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/ >Received on Wed Feb 18 2004 - 23:09:50 UTC
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