Firewire/Audio Device issues

I have a Yamaha Motif XS6 hooked up to my macbook pro running Mavericks. There is an audio driver downloadable from Yamaha (YSFW) which was working perfectly right up until I installed an M-Audio driver. The M-Audio device is no longer supported beyond 10.8.2 so I uninstalled it again. Since then the Motif cannot talk to the macbook pro.
The journey thus far:
I have been able to access the Motif via firewire from a different laptop which means the mLan card in the Motif is working fine.
The Firewire option is viewable under network control panel as working but I have no cable (firewire 800-800) to test it against any other device.
My own personal conclusion (that is only best guess so far) is that the M-Audio driver has knocked out my yamaha YSFW driver.
How do I test this? Are their files/drivers I can be looking for or reinstalling? (I have uninstalled & reinstalled the Yamaha SYFW driver a couple of times with no success.)
Thoughts? Ideas? Opinions? If we can make this work tonight I'll buy you a car!! (actually that's not true and wont stand up in court!)
Thanks for your help in advance.

If your Macbook is a 2009 or later model then it already uses the revision 7 LSI/Agere chipset. And it's likely not the source of the issues.
Have a look here: http://www.rme-audio.de/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4986
What a hub/repeater does is that it puts another FW chipset in between the faulty rev. 6 LSI and the audio interface, kind of translating the error away (I once used a MOTU Ultralite to make a RME Fireface 400 work on a 2008 Macbook Pro). There is no added latency or performance loss by putting another FW device in between (FW devices communicate all on their own).
Concerning FW/USB and channels. 48 channels of 24-bit audio at 192 KHz is still less than 27 mb/s and as such easily handled by USB 2. I can fire all 36 I/Os of my Fireface UC at 44.1 KHz while transferring data to an USB HD drive that is connected to the same USB hub. That is possible because the audio interface can reserve bandwidth on USB just like it can on FW, the HD just gets what's left.
The RME UFX even comes with 60 channels total and can be run over both FW and USB 2: http://www.rme-audio.de/productsfirefaceufx.php
Most USB interfaces suffer more from bad driver implementations (and early USB chipset issues) than from any limits of the USB protocol itself.
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