SATA Controller for external JBOD box for SPARC machines

Hi,
I've an external disk box with 4 disks with each has 1,5 TB. The disks are configured in one big RAIDZ pool. This box is now connected via USB 2.0 to my Blade 2000 (there's an PCI card with USB 2.0 in the Blade 2000) . This works but the performance is not that good.
Therefore I would like to connect the box via SATA (the box has SATA and USB) to the Blade 2000. But it seems there are still not that much SATA adapters for SPARC machines - at least I did not find one.
Another solution would be an external box for SATA disks that can be connected with firewire or FC - but these boxes seems also to be very rare.
regards
Bernd

Search is your friend...
http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?search=Go&q=pcie+sata
Last I remember reading was that there is a card with 8 internal ports and some with external ports are expected to be introduced at MacWorld in Jan.
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