FireWire 800 Cards

Not sure if this is the best forum to be posting this, but I was wondering if anyone out there can recommend a great FireWire 800 card. I would like it to have as many FireWire 800 and USB ports as possible. The last one I tried to purchase was not actually compatible with my particular system. Check out below for my system details.
Power Mac G5
OS X 10.5.8
Model Year - 2003

how about something like [this_|http://www.partsdata.de/Firewire_800_HUB_Repeater_IEEE1394b_8ports_EX-6684__gbIEEE1394-335.html] instead (for FW 800) ?
JGG
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