SUMMARY: How to check if tape is write-protected ?

From: Przemyslaw_Bak@pgf.com.pl
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 04:12:03 EST


Unfortunally nobody suggested _working_ way of checking if the tape
in the streamer is write-protected. SOme suggested to do
'mt status' and it should write to the stdout that tape is
write-protected but in doesn't work in my case.

przemol

> Does anybody know how to check if tape in a streamer is write-protected
> or not ?
> I tried to use 'mt status' but on DLT8000 doesn't give me any value information.
> I also don't want to check it by writing some info on the tape.
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