> > Are there objections?
>
>My only concern about this is that you could issue a raw read command,
>which could screw up the internal state-keeping of the tape driver...
>
>On the other hand, we supply the rope...
>

I think this is probably why the restriction was there. If you're
sophisticated enough to use a program which uses a raw scsi command,
you're sophisticated to handle what it does.