On 29 Apr 98 at 8:29, Oliver Dammann wrote:

> Don't forget: If you want to connect external devices, you'll need
> a special cable with an external connector, because you have only
> one connector on the board.

  Actually, these boards typically provide two connectors, 1 50-pin
(narrow) and 1 68-pin (wide).  We always connect the 50-pin to a
header in a bracket giving us an HD-50 external connector, and use
the wide connector for internal devices (generally the hard
drive(s)).
  The 50-pin header is only a couple of bucks.  On the few machines
where we also lead the 68-pin connector to the outside, for an
external RAID array, the cost of the header was negligible in the
context of the system.

> If you upgrade you MoBo more often, than an external SCSI card is better,
> because you can keep it.

  Good point.  And the flip side is that you can postpone buying SCSI
until you need it....

David G