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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2003
Mohamad Nourmohamadian, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
James Walch, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Mohamad Nourmohamadian, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
James Walch, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Ultera Systems, Inc., Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Abstract
A server interface is adapted to communicate with a server and a data path is adapted to communicate with a random access data storage device. A controller is configured to transfer data between the server interface and the data path. The controller is operational so as to manage the data on the storage device as a plurality of sequentially-ordered virtual tape volumes, wherein a loaded one of the virtual tape volumes is unloaded and a next one of the virtual tape volumes is loaded in response to an eject command from the server.