Automatic Cleaning Enabled Indicator
In the tape library, you can
enable or disable automatic cleaning from the operator panel or IBM® Tape
Library Specialist web interface. The current setting can be
detected by sending a SCSI Mode Sense command to the library (Medium Changer). Bit 2 of byte 2 in
Mode Page 20 is set to
1 when automatic cleaning is enabled. This field cannot be
changed by using Mode Select. Note: The tape drive has no knowledge of the automatic cleaning
setting and therefore, the drive does not suppress the cleaning indicators when automatic cleaning
is enabled. It is recommended that the host
application log these notifications rather than present them to the operator when automatic cleaning
is enabled.