Success!
I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for all of their work and for the help I've recently received from the list. I especially want to thank Neil Brown who has provided significant help. I finally finished setting up and testing a Debian testing SCSI software RAID system which utilizes 3 drives, RAID1 and RAID5, and now seems to be bullet proof. I can lose any single drive and the system runs and boots happily. Soon I will be building another system very similar but with IDE. After that I might put together a little howto since I was never found one that had all the info I needed. Of course even if mine is perfect it will be out of date in 3 to 6 months, but anyway...
Thanks!
Ken Causey