I didn't use the Adaptec 1200A card, instead I picked up a Silicon Image chip - ATA 133 RAID card (PCI) and got it to work the way I needed.
So now the system is the Silicon Image RAID 1 with two 60 gig drives and a Promise SX4000 RAID 5 card with four 250 gig drives currently running SUSE 9.0 build 2.4.21-99.
I haven't formated the RAID 5 yet, I am still trying to decide between Reiser and ext3, Any suggestions?
The one major problem I ran into with this configuration is that getting into the BIOS is difficult. I must take out one of the two raid controllers in order to be able to have enough bios memory to change settings, so I just made sure the settings were the way I wanted them and then I installed the cards.
Thanks,
Robert
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