Greetings,
    This is a followup to Wanda's question about cleaning tapes on an
IBM3584 library.  I wondered if there was any way to do it using
tapeutil.  When I call tapeutil with:
 
tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 inventory
or
tapeutil -f /dev/smc1 cartridgelocation
 
either one will give me a report of all the slots in the library and
what is in them.  But wait a minute, it is not a report of ALL the
slots.  When I tried to use it to find out what slots had cleaning
tapes, I found out that neither of these reports will show the cleaning
tapes!  They show empty slots, and ones with tapes in them, but they
don't show slots that have cleaners.  I suppose this is by design, but I
can't imagine why.

Does anyone know of a way to detect the cleaning tapes with tapeutil (or
similar utility like ITDT), so we can determine how many cleanings are
left?
 
Best Regards,

John D. Schneider
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