Subject: Re: OK to allow raw SCSI requests on tapes?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/16/1998 15:18:15
I think I'm a little confused by what you mean... Can you
explain?



On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> 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.
>