Ghost and Raid 0 on Neo or Neo2?????

Has anyone succesfully made a ghost image on a DVDR using ghost and a Raid 0 setup up? Its starting to make me made that I might go back to 2 seperate drives, it all seems to work okay but reports that I will need 60 DVDs or something ???? Im using ghost 2003 with all the updates installed.

well there is and there isn't
I'll try and explain
Ghost 9, uses a bootCD to do a recovery, this boot CD is based on Wndows PE  which like XP lets you Press F6 during the startup to load additional drivers.
However when you use the floppy disk provided for the NVRAID drivers, it allows you to pick the 2 drivers (name's escape me at present), but then when you continue it says cannot find nvraid.sys
I have seen a post similar to this, with notes on editing the txtsetup.oem file on the floppy to try and make it work, but i'd given up by this point.
The floppy driver disk for NVRAID does not work on any other Windows PE recovery system (ERD 2003, Ghost 9, Driveimage 7, Barts BoodCD).. I tried em all.
I ended up buying a highpoint SATA raid controller and moving all my disks onto that, disabling the onboard raid.. My ghost works and Im happy.
Just found the note.. see below
Try changing this entry in txtsetup.oem
[Disks]
d1 = "NVIDIA RAID DRIVER (SCSI)",\disk1,\
to
[Disks]
d1 = "NVIDIA RAID DRIVER (SCSI)",\,\

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