Dan, I ended up not setting them up in a RAID, I installed it once like that and noticed the computer was a little laggish. so i reinstalled leo and now everything works greatsetting the drives up in a stripe RAID would be an utter waste. you'd essentially reduce the total capacity from 320GB to 240GB.
That is an excellent conquest though, grats
oh, and on the sound card you might try out drivers from m-audio's Revolution 5.1 sound card series, they are based on the Envy24 chipset. you can find the latest driver for it here. Its from 2005, but it worked for me up until i upgraded to leopard in my digital audio.
I tried the revolution drivers, but they didnt work, which is kind of sad, because i really like his card. and i would hate to be stuck with two-channel audio. Or worse, Dolby Pro Logic X|
thanks for the advice dan!
Blake.