18 Nov
2005
18 Nov
'05
1:47 a.m.
"Chuck Guzis" wrote:
On 11/17/2005 at 5:25 PM e.stiebler wrote:
I'm confused (sorry). Are you trying to build a PCI board with a Pertec
interface?
I would think it would be easier to find a small qbus-11, put an 11/73
cpu in it with a built in ethernet and run 2.11bsd. You can image the
tapes and rcp the images to a linux box. pertec interface qbus boards
are not hard to find.
but then again, it would be fun to make a pci board with a pertec
interface... :-)
-brad
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.