During reading the tape drive will itself sense the tape density used. Thus, the generic tape name can normally be given when reading. 5. Dismount your tape from the drive so that others can use it. Tape drives can be selected from any host in the same domain. To get access to drives in other domains you need to have another account with the same name in the remote domain.
New tapes are from factory write enable.
The mode that is used to access the data depends on the device name. That is, for reading there is no difference between, e.g. tape2, tape2h, and tape2m. DAT tapes are write enable when the swith in front of the tape closes the hole. An up to date list of available tape drives is posted on the bulletin board in the user room.