AltRN8: If you can get the correct IDC connector, and ribbon cable, you could have someone make a longer cable for you. Just use the original cable as a guide and match up the wires / IDC connections. With that said, I still use my original (too short) SCSI cable, with a short standard cable going out the back of the tower, because a) all my devices are external anyway, and b) I have no friends...
as for the internal / external adapter... I've seen them. They are usually small PCB's rather than a cable,
per se. You could find these on EBay, I'm sure. I got something similar from stripping down dead PC's / SCSI boxes, etc.... so that might be an option....
