i have the 828 and it's connected via firewire so it seems like a MOTU firewire system would be right. plus before the 3.11 patch was applied i never had the error.
there is a firewire installer as part of the DP3 CD rom and running this (i would think) would put the files where they belong and it still doesn't see it.. i even drug the "828" driver file into the extensions folder as it says in the description and it still doesn't see it. so that's why i'm like just format and reinstall because that worked perfectly last time
I just hit this crazy OS9 re-installation hang up which prevented me from being able to achieve that..
The way i'm used to thinking about an OS installation from scratch is like with Windows.. boot from a CD.. run the various disk utility tools to format drives.. tell the CD where I want the OS to go (what drive) and let it do it's thing.
I have to go back to my history and see what the instructions were for the 9.2.2 OS9Lives image I have from Diehard that he shared awhile back when I was just getting started.. it went smooth back then but I forgot the specifics (because it was so effortless at the time) and then it say for a few months while I working on other studio assembly projects like auditing tons of old Akai S1000 CD roms I've had sitting for years in a CD case to save the best of those to Zip disks for my Peavy DPM SP and K2500R.. now that that was put to rest.. I turned my attention back to
Another project (maybe this is where i accidently messed something up in software) was me getting my two MOTU MTP AV's to network together so FreeMIDI sees them as a single 16 in / 16 out setup.. this took awhile because I had to hunt down a very particular type of serial cable with a particular crossover setup.. after a few cables were bought and tested I finally found one that worked for that (seriously.. best kept secret for massive MIDI IN/OUT ever)
Anyway so yea I've tried some things.. i really have.. i know i probably read like an idiot because of all of these problems but i've been trying lots of variations and experimenting.. but OS9 was never something i mastered.. even back in 2001 when I had this similar setup I never got deep as a true Mac power user.. I'm reasonably seasoned with OSX now (use the terminal now and then) but OS9 is simply a older beast.. just like going back to something like windows 98.. some advancements and conventions just didn't exist that far back. i need to see if OS9 has a "show hidden extensions" type of option because that's something that messes with me too.. i have folders full of "files" that have names but no extension so i don't know what's what..