External Firewire Buss For Macbook Pro?

Im involved in audio and im running an A/D converter via my FW400 that is a bit annoying as it seems to dislike networking other hardware over the same buss (i found this out after buying an external HD, connecting it via the FW800 and whenever it would read from the disk the system would crash and demand a restart.)
im planning on buying a piece of DSP hardware that runs off FW400 that will need to run simultaneously alongside the A/D Converter) i figured i would need a seperate firewire buss too do this..but how would i go about that when using a macbook pro? and would i have to install it in the computer or could i run it externally?
thanks for your help
James
Message was edited by: bobspartylounge

excellent, so could this be a solution? http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fwusbexpresscard34.html
its macbook pro compatible etc, but i just want to make sure its a seperate bus to the one built in

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