Has anyone SUCCESSFULLY connected a CF drive as a master, and a CD/DVD drive as slave on a standard A1200 IDE bus, and been able to use them WITHOUT the use of some kind of 4 port adaptor? If so, HOW?
I swear I did this a couple of years back (if my memory serves me right 
), but regardless of what I have tried over the last couple of days, using all kinds of combinations of hardware/software I'll be buggered if I can get it to work.
I think the purpose of the buffered interface is so you can have longer cables. Without that it will be unreliable if it works at all.
