Go for it.

I didn't and wouldn't have written that code.

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Guenther Grau wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 
> > > > 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.
> 
> And I think that this fact should be documented at a place that
> someone who uses uses this raw scsi interface will look, i.e
> putting some comments into the code and probably add a
> paragraph to the apropriate man page. This will keep people 
> wondering from what's going on, next time someone has a look
> at the code :-)
> 
> Just my $ 0.02,
> 
>   Guenther
>