Cleaning cycle for PowerVault 112T

[Pam Astor]

>I have a 112t PowerVault 1U rack which holds (I believe) the 110t tape drive, 
>it runs DLT IV tapes.  @ present it's connected to a Poweredge 2950 III running Centos 5.1.
>
>I'm trying to run a clean cycle, and am not sure if it's doing what it's supposed to be doing.
>The instructions that came with cleaning tape say that during the clean cycle, the ready 
>light on the drive is supposed to stay solid green, and that the "clean media" light on
>the front panel is supposed to flash.  And when it's done cleaning, the tape is supposed to auto eject.
>
>In my case, when the tape loads, ready light blinks, then stays lit solid, but at 
>no time does the "clean media" light light up or flash.  
>
>How can I tell if it's really cleaning?  Or am I supposed to execute a
>Linux command to commence cleaning?

Just wondered if any Dell experts had any insights into this problem from
a few days ago?  I tried cleaning several times, thought it could be possible that maybe the 
"clean media" light is burned out?

Or, is there a way CLI wise, to confirm that the tape drive has or has not
run a cleaning cycle?

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