When cleaning up my work directory, I noticed this diff to the repository:

Index: sbin/scsictl/scsictl.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/basesrc/sbin/scsictl/scsictl.c,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 scsictl.c
--- scsictl.c	1999/10/27 22:29:06	1.10
+++ scsictl.c	2000/05/21 06:29:40
@@ -255,6 +255,12 @@
 	memset(&cmd, 0, sizeof(cmd));
 	memset(&inqbuf, 0, sizeof(inqbuf));
 
+	cmd.opcode = 0;
+	cmd.length = 0;
+
+	scsi_command(fd, &cmd, sizeof(cmd), 0, 0,
+	    10000, SCCMD_READ);
+
 	cmd.opcode = INQUIRY;
 	cmd.length = sizeof(inqbuf);
 
Can anybody imagine what the purpose of this might be? (thats a 
test unit ready command, and for the identify command thats not what
you want to do... test unit ready fails e.g. if no medium is in a MO drive.

Regards,
	-is