G5 dual 2.0 PCI-X firewire card?

Sorry if this is a more hardware-related posting but I know some of you Logic experts can help. I just purchased a dual 2.0 G5 and am loving it. I have a limited number of firewire ports available and would like to dedicate the internal bus to my Firepod, meaning for backups etc. I'd like to get a PCI-X card. One question -- I can't find any, are they available anywhere? Obsolete (already)? Thanks in advance!!

ah -- I also just found out that PCI-X is backward compatible with PCI but that the cards require a certain voltage. If anyone can provide links to cards that would work, I'd appreciate it, thanks in advance.

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