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Would a CF Slot->IDE adapter be possible? Meaning could you theoritically make an adaptor to hook up an IDE cable to say a Digital Camera's CF connector, thus making your Camera able to write to a 2.5in Hard drive? Not sure why you'd want to do this but in the studio it could be practical.

CF cards can operate in two modes: "true IDE" mode, and, er, some other more memory-card-like mode. This means that a device using real IDE can always attach to a CF card, but not all devices that use CF cards can attach to real IDE. If the CF-using device can only use non-IDE mode, a hard drive won't work. Typically cameras use non-IDE mode: back in the Rio Carbon days, we used special "embedded" CF hard-drives which only understood true-IDE mode, produced specifically in order not to cannibalise sales of the higher-margin dual-mode consumer drives compatible with most cameras. The stitch-up, sorry, mark-up on the camera ones was so high that for a while the retail price of a whole 6Gb Rio Carbon was less than the retail price of a camera-compatible 6Gb CF drive.

The early models of the various devices with a HD CF inside actually had the standard IDE/CF firmware in them. Lots of people bought them up and ripped them apart for the drive. Eventually somebody somewhere got annoyed enough about this to change the firmware and/or the actual connection. The Seagate pocket HD USB drives were like this. The early ones had a standard CF inside but the later ones had a ribbon cable instead.

Even if you did bodge together this adapter, you'd still have to work out some way of powering the HD. I doubt the CF connector will supply enough power for a full sized HD.