Help me decide what to buy next

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Please don't go down the SCSI route unless you absolutely have to.

It may have made sense in the 80s, but today you will pay over the odds for hardware that offers no real improvement in performance, whilst at the same time presents a lot of potential problems.

Get some IDE kit instead, and spend the change on a wireless card and a printer  

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Question for you:
 
I know IDE stuff is easier to get nowadays, but I am concerned about the practicality.
As far as I can figure out, I'd need an IDE buffer thingie (as I have a hard drive already). Then trail the cable to the CD ROM out the back somehow, to an external drive, which seems like a bit of a mess.
The reason I considered SCSI was mainly since with something like the squirrel, it seems a bit neater and easier.
 
Any easy / practical ways to set it up, without making my poor miggy look like she's on life support?
 
 
Im currently leaning towards getting CD ROM last, but it never hurts to think about it ahead of time.

No.  All that stuff about needing a buffered IDE interface is just propaganda that Eyetech deployed so they could flog their 'Buffered interfaces'.

There are some photos on here of Amigas with custom connectors on the side to attach IDE devices, all you need is an adaptor to convert the 44 pin header to a 40 pin header.  You will need a seperate power supply for the drive.  You also have a PCMCIA slot free for a wireless card.

At this point, putting the Amiga in a tower case becomes tempting.

Think Franko had a similar type setup, but I could be wrong about that one.

All the best.

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Apologies if these are dumb questions but will this work even with a hard drive already in the IDE slot?
 

 
It does, but I kinda prefer the "wedge" Also, towering sounds like a pretty significant amount of work and money.
 

 
I imagine Franko had one of everything
 
Thanks so much for all your help!

One of these should do the job nicely: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Laptop-44-40-pin-Hard-Drive-HD-IDE-adaptor-converter-/280613974352?pt=UK_Computing_Laptop_Accessories_LaptopCables_Connectors&hash=item4155e57150

You will need to put another 44 pin socket on that cable though for the Hard drive, or else put another 40 pin socket and you could use a 3.5 inch hard drive instead of the 2.5 one...

Pretty cheap solution though!!

Glad to help