In commercial systems, the MAC address of the Ethernet NIC is considered
a unique identifier of the computer.
Assuming that the machine has a NIC, of course.
Rony
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> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:04:01AM +0200, David Sapir wrote:
> > Hi,
> > When I read from /proc/ide/ide0/hda/identify : is it a
> unique number?
> > Is
> > this the unique ID of the hard disk?
>
> If the computer has such a disk. What about all-scsi system?
>
> If the disk is replaced?
>
> If the disk is moved to a different system?
>
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