Scratch disk settings ignored

Hi,
I am using Photoshop CS5 Extended for Macintosh. (64bit) latest patch 12.0.4
I have a dedicated SSD drive and a RAIDed set of drives I am trying to use as my scratch disks.
In the preferences I have these drives checked and have unchecked all the other drives including system drive. (see attached image)
However when using photoshop it seems to ignore the fact that I have my system drive unchecked in the preferences and uses the drive as the primary scratch drive.
The drives that are checked do not get full. Yet photoshop seems to want to use the system drive first.
Is this a bug?
I work with very large files that rely on the scratch disk and as it seems to default to the system drive it gets full very quick and computer becomes unstable.
Many thanks.

Thanks Chris, that actually clears things up - I have 32gb of RAM and Photoshop is using about 80% of that,
so that's less RAM than I have available on my system disk.
When you use any application, the OS allocates swap space on the system disk: at least as much as RAM used by the application.
>> and will get a warning saying the scratch disk is full.
What are the exact words? The OS can put up a warning about the system disk being full, and MacOS becomes very unreliable if the system disk is full.
I'm not sure about the exact word, but basically the system says that Photoshop can't operate properly any longer, because there is no space on the system drive
and that I need to make more space before clicking on resume, but even if I make a a few more gb of space the resume function never works and PS doesn't come
back to life.
>> The 200GB drive listed as the primary scratch still has lots of free space when seeing this warning,
So the warning is not from photoshop or about the scratch disk.
Not sure, but I guess you're right: the warning comes from the system, but it is caused by Photoshop initially.
we just ordered a 240gb SSD as a new system disk, so that should hopefully sort things out...
Thanks for your help everybody!
C-:
It sounds like you need to free up more space on your system disk.
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