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Tape drive status.

# mt -f /dev/rmt/0mn status
Drive:  QUANTUM SuperDLT1
Format:
Status: [0]
File:   0
Block:  0

When there is no tape loaded in the drive or at least it thinks there is no tape in the drive so until you get the Status line to display more than simply “[0]”