Yes the adapter sounds great - *if* you have the time to rig one up, and ultimately will be useful if you can then modify it the other way around: to power a standard 3.5" or 2.5" SCSI HD off a Portable. That's what I'd like

Sadly my own non-backlit Portable appears to have leaking caps, although it does boot to a flashing disk icon and spins the HD up and down.

JB