This is not possible in terms of media. Symantec's own support documentation indicates that the only determination used in pulling tapes is if the tape is overwritable.
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/327050.htm
To help mitigate this, if you have a library, you could create partitions for specific jobs and different media sets for those partitions. I have done this in the past.
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/309279.htm
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/206843.htm