Those SCSI to IDE adptors. What about 'em ?

[Jose]

Well, with one of those things you could actually put a BIG fast 2.5" HD  in your desktop A1200.  Has anyone tried it ? Which one would you advise? Is it small enouph for the desktop A1200?

[Jose]

Hi. Yeah, that's what I meant an IDE disk with SCSI controler.

As for size I found THIS!!!!!
Shame it's expensive. Maybe there are some at eBay.

[Jose]

@Foid:
"The 50-pin SCSI header is as wide as a 2.5" drive itself. I don't know how much room there is to play with inside a 1200, and if you have a tower, you can fit real SCSI drives anyway."

There are 2.5" SCSI drives. But damn expensive and rare.

And, they claim that you have the advantages of SCSI with lower price. Your're right 70 plus the IDE drive will be cheaper!!  
As for the advantage you mentioned SCSI has, sounds interesting  are you sure it's a hardware thing in SCS HDs?. If not this combo probably has it, since you have to buy a card like that one for each IDE device, there is no arbitration goin on. .

@iamaboringperson:
"ide-scsi, parallel-scsi, or usb-scsi are just a kludge, to get things connected"
Hmmm, benchmarks please  8-) What you said goes completely against what the maker of the cards says. Maybe there is some middle point.

@Wofe:
Yeah that's the idea  pretty cool isn't it?  8-)

[Jose]

Hi Thomas, mabe the one you have is for 3.5" HDs. There are models for 2.5" ones that could be smaller. I 'm felling tempted to try it, but I'm gonna search somebechmarks /info  on the net first....