[Pc_Support] Quantum DLT4000, three lights flashing

[Damien McKenna]

Well I finally got a cleaning tape, only to realize when it arrived that 
I got a "Cleaning Tape III" and not IV.  I kicked the DLT drive enough 
(only joking) until it ejected the tape that was in it then put in the 
cleaning tape.  With the cleaning tape in it did exactly the same thing 
as before - it'd flash the "Tape in use" light for a little while then 
all the lights on the right side flash.  According to the drive's manual 
(from the Quantum website) it seems this means the drive is in an error 
state; hitting the Unload button doesn't do anything beyond cycling the 
drive back into a reset then back into the error state again.

One question to the gallery, anyone know how to query the drive to see 
what its status is?  The manual says:

Byte 18 of the REQUEST SENSE data has two formats: a byte code
and a bit flags format. The bit flags format is used when there is no
internal status code to report and can be quickly distinguished by
checking to see if bit 7 of byte 18 is set to 1.

so how would I obtain this from the drive?  I'm currently running 
Windows XP Home but I can boot up in Knoppix if that would open up any 
avenues?

Any help would be appreciated, I really want to get this drive working.  
Thanks.

-- 
Damien McKenna, husband, father, geek.
damien at mc-kenna.com - http://www.mc-kenna.com/