Wouldn't it make sense to have just one utility which would do
"the right ioctls" depending on type of device it works upon ?
Approach seems to be to make ATAPI & SCSI devices behave
similarily and have similar ioctls; having one common utility
to control them would be IMHO Right Thing (tm).

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