On 11/17/2005 at 5:25 PM e.stiebler wrote:
 Then get the old memec/insight PCI eval board (spartan
xc2s200?). Should
do the job just fine. 
...and there's the rub.  I might be better off simply putting together a
dedicated non-PC controller and just spool the data over USB.  9 track
tapes don't hold that much after all--and I'll be streaming pretty much
 from BOT to EOT on both read and write.  
I need to think about this.
Thanks,
Chuck