Which FW400 PCI card?

I find myself in need of additional FW400 ports.
Does anyone have experience with specific FW400 cards? Do they correctly support deep sleep? Which models?
I have an iSight, iPod and several LaCie d2 drives which will be plugged into the machine.
PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I ' don't know for sure... (maybe nobody knows)
But refering to Motu article:
+"As our FireWire interfaces are FW 400 devices, there will be no performance increase by connecting them to a FW 800 bus, but there will also be no detriment to MOTU FW performance either. MOTU FireWire interfaces can be bus-powered via a FireWire 800 port just the same as via a regular 6-pin FireWire 400 port. Using a FW 800-to-400 adapter simply provides you with more connectivity options. "+
There are chip set that slow down the FW800 to 400 speed performances...
I have notice about RME and DigiDesign Firewire.. But I'm not so sure about that
But Motu devices comes with the best Firewire chipset...
you can connect it without loosing FW800 speed!!!
But be carefull there are some external hard drive that should be not so compatible if connected in the same FW buss. (but this point is the same also for Mac with FW400 that are connected in the same FW800 Buss ... that it is in My G5)
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