Daisy chain a firepod to a firewire pro solo

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HI everyone, I am a little desperate. I have a project starting tomorrow and one of my presonus firepods crapped out (questions about that later). So now I only have 8 live inputs, I need at least ten to track this project. A friend has a little M audio firewire solo. If I can daisy chain them together then Im good. I don't have the device in front of me until tomorrow. I want to know if its possible to daisy chain these two devices from two competing companies together. Will they "see" each other? I just want to know this NOW, so I figure out another route if anyone can definitively tell me its not gonna work. If it doesn't work, any suggestions?

Second, the issue with my firepod is odd. It seems "frozen", the blue indicator light is just staying on whether its connected to a device or not. And then when it is connected to the computer directly or to the other pod, nothing there either. The computer doesn't "see" it. And yes I have tried multiple cables, so its not that. Is there a "reset" on these things? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks
 
No you cant (reliably) daisy-chain interfaces from different manufacturers.

ASIO allows ONE driver instance at one time.

Some manufacturers (like Motu) allow you to run multiple boxes under
one instance of their driver, making everything appear to be one big box.
 
Presonus firepod blue light is a common fault and is (sometimes) due to a fault in the firewire chip.
It may need a proper service/repair but to my knowledge, it should work in standalone/direct monitoring mode.

I'm not 100% on the routing, but I think preamps 1+2 should route to spdif out by default, which means you could connect the spdif out from the broken one into the spdif in on the good one and achieve ten channels.

Try it out and let me know.
 
Thanks for the answers, I, going to try the SPDIF thing. As for the daisy Chain, I worked quite well, no glitches so far. Ill post back here if something major goes wrong. But so far so good. I needed the extra two channels for scratch guitar and bass, so if it is a little rough, and the sound aint great from the firewire solo, Its not the end of the world. But as a quick fix it seems fine. Thanks
 
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