Interesting thread, makes me want to replace the hard drives inside my A1200/060, A600 and A500 w/GVP A530 (and lose the noisy fan that is failing inside the A530).
Maybe I will get a few IDE > CF adapters from one of the vendors at AmiWest 2009 in October. I already have two PCMCIA > CF adapters for the A1200/060 & A600, but that is used mostly for transferring files from one computer to another.
Be careful thinking all this should work hunky-dory with your A530, etc.! See my recent post Re: this stuff...