Compact Flash to IDE

From: Abe Cd (p_at_q.es.t)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:08:17 +0800

Seeing as Compact Flash uses a standard IDE interface, would it be
possible to attach an ordinary hard drive to a camera via a compact
flash slot?
There are many adaptors on the market that go the other way (allowing
you to use compact flash cards as hard drives in a PC), but I haven't
seen anyone attempt this yet, except with microdrives.
Is this possible?

TIA

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