firewire bandwidth hogging!!

Hi, all,

Having some weird behaviour with my firewire devices. I have a MOTU 896, a MOTU 828mkII and a LaCie 120GB backup drive. Here's the weirdness...

When all three devices are plugged in, the computer can't see the LaCie drive on startup.

When the LaCie and only one of the MOTUs are plugged in, it sees the LaCie no problem.

Likewise when only the LaCie is plugged in - no problems.

When I start the computer with the MOTUs both plugged in and then add the LaCie AFTER Windows has started, it sees the drive no problem.

I have the latest MOTU drivers and the most recent LaCie firmware update. I've tried three different FireWire cards (using adaptec right now) and my computer was just exhaustively checked by a Carillon tech last week. So, my question is this:

Are the two MOTUs combined simply sucking up too much bandwidth on startup for the LaCie to be recognized? Is there a firewire setting I can adjust so all three devices will be seen? Or is this just an incompatibility hiccup that simply will require me to plug in the LaCie every time after startup? Any thoughts and help would be appreciated.