Y-splitter cable for PCIe card

I am considering a Dynex 2-Port FireWire 800 and 1-Port FireWire 400 PCIe Adapter (DX-PCI2PF) for my Mac Pro. The card has a 4-pin power connector to receive extra power, if desired.
Where can I find a cable that goes from one of the power connectors on the motherboard of the mac Pro, split it, and one of the Y legs go to the 4-pin connector on the card?
I could do without a Y. But, since one of the power connectors on the motherboard is already used for a 2nd video card, I would like to give myself an extra power connection after installing the Dynex card.

*The hatter* - Thanks for your quick reply!
Actually, I was looking at this card on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Dynex-2-Port-800-1-Port-400-FireWire-PCIe-Adapter-DX-PCW0QQitemZ330419493351QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item4cee8959e7#h t_775wt941
The description states "Built-in 4-pin power connector for receiving extra power supply." That's why I became curious.
The FW800 port on the back of my Mac Pro is already used to connect to a FW800 hub that is 15 feet away. And, I want to have at least two more FW800 ports to attach (1) OWC's Mercury On-The-Go Pro drive and (2) MacBook Pro in Target Disk Mode.
For my purpose, do you know that these PCIe cards would not need extra power supply?
Also, what would one connect to these PCIe cards that necessitates extra power supply?

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I have a new Diamond firewire external 160 Gb harddisk.
In spite I have upgraded the BIOS for my K7T Turbo board to version 3.6 (by specs at MSI at least I should use version 3.4 to run 160 Gb HD's), I get I/O errors after trying to copy lot of data to the harddisk. ;( Afterwards I am losing contact to the device and get exclamation marks within the system configuration.
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Looking to the settings it seems I only can manage it when it is an ISA card, but those cards are not used any longer in modern mainboards.
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1.
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http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/1_reboot_no_error_a.gif
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http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/2_reboot_no_error_b.gif
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http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/3_Error_message.gif
http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/4_Error_message.gif
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http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/5_many_data_error_b.gif
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http://members.chello.nl/~l.obers/MSI/6_system_log.gif
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Regards, Léon Obers

Mmm. I just see some other options.
The device called "1394 CF type II IEEE 1394 SBP2 device is an extrenal firewire Compact flash reader, not a Diamond controller. (It is connected, during the test, but not used for copying files).
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Mike Lowry wrote:
Thanks.
not a whole lot of firewire 800 products. not to mention cards compatable with my G3 desktop.
helpfull still.
That may be the difficulty in getting the latest USB2/FW800/Gigabit/SATA cards, since when the PCI hardware was introduced with those newer standards the beige G3 was already a dinosaur, so they were likely designed for official support and compatibility with the current computer models at the time and since.
You might have better luck with compatibility with the older USB1/FW400/ATA card for example. (Not sure why you need Gigabit, if the on-board Ethernet is still functional anyway.) That's not to say the newer cards won't work at all, but you may be the guinea pig who finds out if they do. I'd be interested in your results with the SATA, if you can get that to work or not. I haven't heard of any one using them in the G3 here, if so I must have missed it.
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http://www.acard.com/english/fb0101.jsp?type1idno=3&type2idno=24
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vijay shankar wrote:
Thanks Dennis,
Actually I dont think I have any drivers installed.. Because, I used the tap test interface in MAX to find that I have to trigger the 5th line of 0th port of a pci dio 96 card to trigger my device.
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VJ
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Hi friends,
I've a PCI card developed in-house. How to prepare a driver for the same in LabVIEW? Can I develop drivers in VISA? I don't have a manufacture id. Is there any other method to develop a driver for PCI card? Once developed, can I use them for other platforms like VC++? My OS is Windows 9X/NT & 2000. I need a driver to use for all these. Lot of querries! hope I made it clear.

THE ANSWER IS THAT YES YOU CAN DO THIS IN NI-VISA!
Some have said that you need a kernel driver. This is partially true in that a PXI or PCI card (they are the same as viewed by the OS) must have a kernel driver. NI-VISA provides one for you.
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eXitec:
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