I love using CF-IDE adaptors. What I don't like is ribbon cables floating around and the fact the adaptors needs extra power cable (unless you have a rare controller that can provide voltage on pin 20).

So I decided to mod one of these to build a solution that can be powered exclusively from the slot without any external cables.

Started with a standard CF2IDE adaptor. Unsoldered male pins, soldered female connector. Unsoldered molex connector, soldered just a plain wire and connected +5V to gameport pin:

Then I noticed that the HDD LED also conveniently provide +5V and come up with an improved variant:

So now I got a solid state VL-Bus storage without clunky cables which can be plugged into the slot and that's it.