[Novalug] Region, Writing, and Writhmetic....

[JRR]

Hi;

I'm working on improving a machine I recently assembled by making it 
dual boot.
There are some subtle hurdles.

 I installed Windows XP PRO using the on board RAID chip making the  large
partition RAID 0,  NTFS. I did not use all of the ~ 260 GB, leaving  
4 GB or so open.

1) DVD-RW region. Windows XP Pro asked me what region to make the DVD-RW
drives , and it seems that Win made both DVD drives the same region. I 
put 2 DVD's
in  the system so I could have 2 regions.  Is there a way to make this a 
2 region machine
under SuSE ??  under Fedora ??  R-hat??

If I keep switching back and forth between XP and SuSE won't I run out 
of burns on the
DVD ??  It is my understanding that the DVD drives a purposely made so 
they freeze on
one region after  ~ 20  region change burns...


2) RAID 0 ....  If I put a second RAID 0 array in the chassis, this is a 
big one, I can boot
from it  to get SuSE,  but with the Windows RAID driver I'm guessing I 
won't be able to
see the NTFS // XP Pro array.  Suggestions ??