Well, is mentioning this even important?

DUID use solves part of the problem, BIOS selection solves other parts
of the problem, and I suspect the remainder of the problem is so
machine-dependent that I wonder why it is documented..

> When first (re-) read I thought 'what? attaching an usb drive cannot
> change other drives' - until I figured this was about boot time.
> Say so:
> 
> Marcus
> 
> Index: faq14.html
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> RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq14.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.352
> diff -u -p -u -r1.352 faq14.html
> --- faq14.html        4 Mar 2017 21:22:45 -0000       1.352
> +++ faq14.html        6 Mar 2017 20:38:37 -0000
> @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The devices are numbered by the order in
>  starting at zero.
>  So, the first IDE-like disk will be <tt>wd0</tt> and the third SCSI-like disk
>  will be <tt>sd2</tt>.
> -Removing or adding a disk may impact the identity of other drives on the 
> system.
> +Removing or adding a disk may impact the boot time numbering of other drives.
>  Note that OpenBSD will not necessarily number drives in the same order as 
> your
>  boot ROM.

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