Reccomendations for eSATA expresscard please!

Hi,
I've just installed Snow Leopard and my 2 port esata express card no longer works. During the install process OSX stated that my SIL3132-based card is not supported and the software has been removed and placed in a folder.
I have had problems all week trying to get this thing to work in Bootcamp with Windows XP (the attached drive would never show in Explorer) although it did work perfectly in Leopard.
That's all by the by anyway. I'm pretty much over this cheap and nasty card so i've decided to bin it and buy another one in the hope that it'll be less troublesome.
So my question is can anyone tell me a brand/model of *2 port* esata expresscard that they have got working both in OSX Snow Leopard AND Bootcamp with Windows XP please?
If i can't find one I will be forced to use Firewire 800, but i am unsure if this is quick enough for multi-track audio recording and video editing.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
John

A bit of research shows that your card uses the very same chipset as the Firmtek card. Therefore you may be able to get their driver to work with your card instead of spending your hard earned cash on a new card. I will be testing this over the weekend when I install Snow Leopard myself and try to get things up and running. I, however, will be doing a clean install (shame on Apple for requiring a wipe for this option to appear) and dual booting with either Tiger or Leopard so that I may use some programs that likely will not work with SL (and possibly in this case, eSATA). If you insist on getting a new card, I suggest the Sonnet Tempo Pro, which uses the Marvel chipset. May as well upgrade performance at the same time as making it work with a new OS that all cards should work with anyway.
On the driver front, while I am not suggesting that you break any EULA's which Firmtek may have on its drivers, most cards based on the Sil-3132 chip use Silicon Image's reference design. Thus the driver should work without any modification. At the very most you may have to modify a plist file to get it to accept your card and install it. Kudo's to Firmtek for going above and beyond the (lack there of) work that Silicon Image puts into their drivers. If I knew what I know now I would have gladly paid more for a card from a company that writes their own drivers.
I'll update once I get SL up and running and (attempt to) get my eSATA card working with it.

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