SUMMARY: Is a tape in the drive?

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Thanks for all of the great responses. Especially:

Caleb Warner
Benjamin R. Cline
Ed Jones
Jim Harmon
Jim Coby
Gerald Combs
Dan Penrod

who all responded very quickly. The original post was:

>
> I am trying to set up a threshold on Sybase running on Solaris 2.5 to
> dump the translogs before they get too large. One problem is that if a
> tape is not in the drive, the database will halt. Is there a Solaris
> command/utility or script that will check to see if a tape is in the
> drive? Thank you for you help. I will Summarize.

The answer:

mt -f <device> status

Thanks to all.

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