IDE Expansion for the Amiga 1200

[Argus]

All this talk of more than one drive on the a1200.  I have a question: anyone know if an ordinary 2.5" to 3.5" ide adaptor could be used to connect a two device 3.5" cable to the 2.5" m/b connector.  They are only a dollar or so (as compared to $40+ for the cheapest amiga ide variant.  Yes, yes, I know that the expansion would be unbuffered, but would it work (cheap)?

[Argus]

@adolescent

yeah, that's what I had in mind.  The power plug bit maybe could be used to power a small internal fan off the 2.5" power connector.  My idea is simply to find a cheap interface to use a 3.5" ide drive and an internal 40-pin laptop ide cd rom (all in the original A1200 case).  Power to the drives would come off the floppy power connector.