Q-bus to CF [was: IOmega]

I stopped holding my breath for creation of a Q-Bus IDE controller a long time ago. While I like to think that I do a reasonable job troubleshooting some problems, I'm definitely not a hardware/software engineer. It would have been nice, but it makes more sense these days to go Q-Bus to SATA. I would imagine that it would be alot less hassle, and certainly alot less real estate on the board, with the smaller connectors, and fewer traces. At any rate, back to the topic, Q-Bus to Compact Flash. If you can do Q-bus to Compact Flash, then you can do Q-bus to IDE, because CF *is* an IDE interface. Those wonderful CF to IDE adapter boards generally don't have any circuitry on-board, except to drive status LED's. Right now, I have Compact flash / IDE on my Q-bus, albeit in a round-about way. I have older CMD SCSI controllers (CQD-200's). Attached to those are ACard 7720U SCSI <> IDE adapters. http://www.acard.com The CMD controllers don't have any problems with them, and it seems to be happy with older IDE drives that I've tried. And finally, I have ACS IDE <> Compact Flash adpaters. http://www.acscontrol.com You can use any IDE <> CF adapter you want, and you can certainly get them alot cheaper elsewhere. I chose the ACS unit, since they were one of the few that I could find that offered it in a 3.5" drive frame. They also offer them in a 5.25" form factor, but I think they're just using a readily available 3.5" to 5.25" frame. I use a SCSI removeable chassis, so I had to modify my Acard 7720U in order to fit everything into the tray. There is at least one vendor that offers a direct SCSI to CF adapter, but they were a bit pricy compared to my homebrew version. I have tested my configuration with CF cards ranging from 4MB up through 2GB, and find that it works adequately for my needs. I could see no discernable speed increase between using real SCSI drives, and the IDE <> CF adapter, although I wasn't trying to do any significant benchmarking. (The CQD-200's are kind of poky controllers anyway, so this didn't really surprise me.) Now, if I only I could use PUTR to dump a disk image onto a RAW IDE device, I'd be a happy camper. . . ;-) T