I am trying to use 2 MOTU 896's as an aggregate device in Logic Pro 8

I am using Logic Pro 8 on a Macbook Pro OS 10.6.8. I am trying to use 2 MOTU 896's as an aggregate device to have total of 16 inputs. I am daisy chaining the 896's via firewire. I can select channels 1-16 as inputs in Logic. I am getting signal input in channels 1-8 in Logic. However, I am getting no signal input in channels 9-16. I've also tried using ADAT light pipe as output from the 2nd device to the 1st one and that didn't work either. I have created the aggregate device under audio-midi setups and I've set the 1st 896's clock source to internal and the 2nd 896's clock source as the 1st 896. I've also tried both 896's clock source as internal. Has anyone had any success in using 2 896's as an aggregate device in Logic Pro 8? I need to use this setup to record a large band. I would greatly appreciate any tips that anyone has. Thanks.

David,
Learning is not a bad thing, I'm just saying what you thought MIDI did is in error, you're not the first.
Here's an article explaining what MIDI is and how it works, it probably seems less than you thought it capable of but the fact is, since it's standardization in 1983 it completely revolutionized electronic music. By the Way, the designers of the Prophet 8 (Dave Smith & Sequential Circuits) had a lot of input into the MIDI protocol, in fact, if you had to say one company/person came up with the basics of MIDI it was Sequential Circuits. They also came up with the first polyphonic, fully programmable analog synth. I had a very basic MIDI studio at the end of 1984.
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/midi1.htm

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