User's Guide
Appendix C Automatic Drive Cleaning
Cleaning Cartridges
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• Number of uses of each cleaning cartridge
• “Home” storage element of each cleaning cartridge 
• “Current” storage element of each cleaning cartridge
Mode Sense 
Command 
3
To report the current drive cleaning mode, use the Mode Sense 
command and:
• Set the Page Code field to 20h - Vendor Unique Page 20h
• Set Page Control field to 0 - Target to return current values for 
the page code specified (20h)
Vendor Unique Page 20h, byte 2, bit 1 indicates the current drive 
cleaning mode:
• One - indicates the automatic drive cleaning feature is enabled
• Zero - indicates the automatic drive cleaning feature is 
disabled
Cleaning Cartridges
3
In host-initiated cleaning mode the host tracks all cleaning 
cartridges and their use. 
In automatic cleaning mode the library tracks all cleaning 
cartridges and their use. 
Capacity
3
Although a maximum of ten cleaning cartridges may be present in 
the Product Name, four or less are recommended to optimize 
library performance. If more than ten cleaning cartridges are 
present in the library at inventory, the library moves the additional 
cartridges to the load port for manual unloading.
Identification
3
Cleaning cartridges have unique bar code labels that begin with 
“CLN,” (for example, CLN001). 










