You may want to check out Bustech's MAS. It emulates a tape Library and you can attach real SCSI drives to it.
Attaches via ESCON or FICON. Zachary Jones City of Grand Rapids, Mi Operations On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 09:08 -0500, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Friday, 01/26/2007 at 07:48 CST, Ed Zell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Yes, it has a daisy-chain SCSI connector on it. And if it won't work > > with CP or CMS, then I may be SOL. > > > > What I really would like to do is take advantage of our network side > > tape devices for backup. They have some pretty cool drives and a > > small tape silo. If we both used a DS6000 or DS8000 storage unit > > would their drives be able to backup my mainframe data? > > The DS6000 and DS8000 storage units can have both ECKD FICON (extra cost) > and open Fibre Channel connections active on them at the same time. You > do have to divide the units into separate ECKD and open "primordial" > storage pools. > > More recent tape drives units can work the same way. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott
