Need PCIE FW800 Expansion Cards For G5 Dual Core 2.0

Question

Hi Gang
Seems like one is always behind the eight ball trying to get ahead.
With the only available PCIe FW800 Multi Port Cards, they've taken away anything that offers more than 2 Ports. Everything is 2 PORT ONLY. There's nothing that I can find. And the prices for PCIe Multi Port FW800 Cards are a whooping triple of standard PCI Cards.
The old issue;
Do Not put a 3rd PCIe card directly above the video card - DO NOT. I've already had overheating which spilled above in regard to my older Single 1.8 Can I trust the better cooling of the Dual Core to put a PCIE card directly above the Video Card?
If not, that leaves me with 2 PCIe Multi-Port Cards with 4 ports available total. But I need to read #5 External Storage drives total.
Unibrain repeater was recommended here, but can I read all 5 drives simultaneouly? SATA Card alternative? No Can Do - because #2 of these older external drives DO NOT have SATA control.
http://www.synchrotech.com/product-1394/firewire-hubs-repeaters07ub-firerepeater-800-pro.html
OWC is NO HELP here;
http://eshop.macsales.com/search/PCIE
Any other ideas?
Thanx
Mike

Answer 1

Hi direwolf
Hi japamac
Daisy Chaining (as stated by Steve), is not recommended. In fact, it's dangerous if you're depending on reliability for expensive, extensive Video Media. I would never ever do it again
I actually did buy two of these from OWC;
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Apiotek/IE1007/
BUT
Got problems; The cards went in like a breeze, but they're NOT reading any of the external Lacie Drives. The Native 800FW port in the G5 reads just fine, but the PCIe cards are not reading the Lacie's. Yes they are recogized in the system profiler. But I've got a mystery on my hands right now.
Mike