Topic: So after all of that (Praise Dirk Diggler)!!!
All I had to do was get 2 separate firewire cards and run each Fireface 800 into it's on card via firewire 400!!! Who'd have thunk it?!?! If interested you can follow my struggle here https://www.forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=26328 & here...
https://www.forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=26401
Now on to the next set of issues! Mainly trying to undrstand totalmix and how it affects me (because I never use it).
Thanks all who to the time to try and assist me (Ramses, MC, Timur).