Verifying Shooting Parameters on DVCAM tape

I am capturing DV-NTSC footage into FCP 6 from Mini-DV tapes playing in a SONY DVCAM DSR-V10 clamshell deck. The camera was a SONY HVR-Z1U.
Some of these tapes, God help me, seem to have been shot with the camera set on 48K 16-bit audio and others at 32K 12 bit. The tapes are not marked as to which.
Is there a way of knowing what the audio settings were for a given tape BEFORE logging and digitizing? Can I tell while the tape is in the deck?
Thanks.

Bogiesan,
Thanks for your idea. We evidently don't have the remote to our clamshell deck, but the display on the screen as the tape plays (though not when it is in stop mode) gives the sample rate at the bottom right.
However -- and excuse me for being such a moron -- I don't know whether this "48K" at the bottom of the deck means that (a) the deck is set to play at 48K; (b) the deck is set to record at 48K; or (c) the tape that is playing was shot at 48K. Do you know?
Also, I went into menu settings, and I saw under Audio Mode the choices "FS32K" and "FS48K." The deck, interestingly enough, was handed to me set at FS32K. But I am thinking this refers not to the way the deck OUTPUTS but to the rate at which it RECORDS.
Obviously I am trying to track down where 32K has entered the picture -- when the camera shot the video/audio; when the deck output it; or when FCP captured it.
Any thoughts?
Thanks a lot.

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