If it would help ... I do have ~several assorted drives lying around. Rashly assuming that regular IDE drives are useful, I'll see what I can find. I'd swear there are a half-dozen in the 6 to 20 Gb range that are not doing anything productive and could be spared. Finding them may be the worst part, sadly, since I'm only sure where six or ten drives are right now (outside runable PCs, that is).
You might want to hit the hamfest anyway for cables for them as I saw a lot of those cheap today (c. $1.00 each).
You might want to hit the hamfest anyway for cables for them as I saw a lot of those cheap today (c. $1.00 each).