Not completely true. The scsi-generics interface is a secondary
interface to all of the physical devices that let users do direct scsi
programming of a device. For disks and cdroms there isn't a problem,
since the generics interface uses character devices, but with tapes
there would be an ambiguity that would somehow need to be resolved.
-Eric
-- "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."