Is there a way to determine how much a tape can hold without physically taking the tape out of the drive and looking at the label? The following is dmesg output about my tape drive (and SCSI CD-ROM).
It would be possible if it is supported both HW and driver. So probably the only method how u can check it is method commonly known as "Monte Carlo". I.e. u can overwrite full tape (non compress mode) by this cmd:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/your_tape bs=1k
Command will stop/fail at the end of tape, but tells u how much blocks succeed to write.
noro
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