When I wrote the iSCSI Target I had included a very basic tape
emulation. This was something that I had wished to expand into a full
blown tape emulation with media changer support. Alas, I never had
time. Maybe the COMSTAR project will expand on that rudimentary
implementation and provide what you're looking for in the target.

On 9/20/07, Jacob Ritorto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>          My Legato tape backups are slow because my stacker is really old.  
> Yes, I will buy a new one, but before I do so, do you think I could convince 
> Legato to talk to a some iscsi targets on a Solaris Express b70 box as if 
> they're a bunch of actual scsi tape drives?  Is the iscsi tape emulation code 
> ready to do such things?  Some posts from the beginning of the year implied 
> that it may not yet be time to try it, but I was hoping things might have 
> been fixed by now.
>
>         Please pardon my simplistic tone here -- I'll increase verbosity if 
> you want me to -- just let me know..
>
> Thanks
>
> Jake
>
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