IDC50 to DB25

[meega]

IDC50 male to DB25 female ?

There is such a thing.

http://www.qvs.com/internal-adaptor.asp

There are bound to be others.

[meega]

I think you're asking for the wrong thing though... don't you want an IDC50 female to DB25 male connecting cable?

[meega]

I think a buffered 4-way IDE adapter (with relevant software) would likely be the best option. You might then fit a slimline CD/DVD drive internally in the A1200 (they are incredibly cheap these days - you might even get given one for free by some kind soul), and you also get the ability to add other IDE devices if you want.

[meega]

I don't know the Blizzard's pinot,

It's standard.

[meega]

The internal IDE header of the A1200 can provide about 1 amp of 5V, not much more. I have a 2006 manufactured slim optical drive here that takes 1500mA of 5V, I wouldn't be happy running that without separate power... and I certainly wouldn't run it at the same time as a 2.5" hard disk that is powered through the same 44-way cable.

Does the label tell you what the power requirements are?

[meega]

I didn't say I was using it - I said I have one here... it's on a shelf with other bits waiting for me to hack the case.  :hammer:

If I want to use SCSI/CD directly with my A1200 then at the moment I plug in a Squirrel and use a proper 50-way Centronics interfaced external cased drive (which has its own internal 240V mains supply). I don't want to draw 12-15W through the A1200 IDE header.

You can ignore the power used by the CF card, so you have 5-6W available through the header. My normal hard drive uses 0.7A (3.5W) which is just dandy, but I have an old Hitachi 1GB 2.5" hard drive that does work from the A1200 44-way, it uses 1.2A (6W) - that's the limit in my opinion. Whether you want to try 7.5W of CD is entirely up to you - I won't do it.

You might try tapping 5V from the floppy drive power header - it's largely idle in a hard drive or CF based system, and you probably won't be using floppy and CD at the same time very often.