On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 18:00:13 -0000, you wrote:

>Thanks a lot for that Michael.
>
>It looks almost useful and it looks like you can buy just the chips for
>$48usd too, which isn't too bad really for my project, but I would have
>preferred something from a bigger manufacturer as it looks like its just=
 a
>programmed fpga.
>
>Also it's maximum throughput is only 28MB/s and I need 30MB/s minimum. I
>know its close but ...
>
>
>Does anyone else have any other suggestions?

Building something that pretends to be an IDE hard-disk would probably =
not be too difficult...
USB2 and firewire may also be worth a look.
Maybe you could adapt a USB2 flash-card reader..?

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