Agreed!   I have gotten numerous boxes of 'prelabeled' tapes only to find
that the vendor had only applied the barcodes.

Al




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>The tapes are pre-labeled and initialized.

I would advised *always* doing your own media labeling of incoming
volumes, and to not assume that the media vendor has done it right.
This also provides an initial test of tape writeability.

  Richard Sims, BU