Tape Drive - Check Tape Is Loaded

Hi,

I want to write a program to check if a tape is loaded in an Internal SCSI tape drive (HP) on a windows 2003 system.

Is there a way I can communicate with the tape drive to check the status of the tape?

Thanks

Mike

Using MS Visual Studio 6

As I understand that tape can support TAPEalert API. Cannot be sure, but you can search inet and your docs and check it...

And then - you should look for the info about this API...
I for example found this piece of code http://www.koders.com/c/fidBD621F815...DDBF77D8F.aspx

Haven't read it thoughoutly, so cannot say how much it can be useful to you...