Just one small point:

Should the raw scsi commands not be conditionalized on being in a low
enough secure level, for obvious reasons?

.pm

Matthew Jacob writes:
> > > 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.