Alan,

You told it all...

Besides, it may be used to access device in raw mode.

Besides, if a chunk of software, not marked as EXPERIMENTAL or UNSAFE, is enclosed in a distribution, then it MUST work well.

Alan Cox escreveu:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:29:40PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
  
why?
Repeat after me:
You don't need sg to burn cd's. 
    

Repeat after me:

You do need sg to 
	- Run enclosure management
	- Use the disk firmware update tools (which for some U320 stuff is a
			*must 8( )
	- Drive scsi scanners
	- Handle scsi tape changers