Using Raid and enabling use of second sound devic.K8N/SLI 7100 mobo.I'm lost

My specs are in my signature, question is should I configure my hd's in Raid, will I get a performance increase? and what is the actual process in doing so? I have a floppy that came with my mobo titled raid configurator something, Keep in mind these hd's are Ultra ATA/100 with 8mb cache and not sata or scsi, and I have two sound devices, the onbard sb live and a pci sb ls.....can i use ls for my mic?....how should I do it? I heard someone mention doi9ng the same thing before i just can't find the post....thank you

RAID is worht the speed. Just configure it in the BIOS and instal Win like on a regular drive. XP SP2 needs a 4K cluster size to instal IIRC.

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To build and run it do:
javac -cp . SoundPlayer.java
java -cp . SoundPlayer yourWaveFile.wav
import java.io.*;
import javax.sound.sampled.*;
import javax.sound.sampled.DataLine.*;
public class SoundPlayer implements LineListener
     private float bufTime;
     private File soundFile;
     private SourceDataLine line;
     private AudioInputStream stream;
     private AudioFormat format;
     private Info info;
     private boolean opened;
     private int frameSize;
     private long frames;
     private int bufFrames;
     private int bufsize;
     private boolean running;
     private boolean shutdown;
     private long firstFrame, lastFrame;
     private float frameRate;
     private long currentFrame;
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          this(new File(path),bt);
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          this(sf, 2); // use 2 second buffer
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          try
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               currentFrame = 0;
               shutdown = false;
               running = false;
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               format=stream.getFormat();
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                    stream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(AudioFormat.Encoding.PCM_SIGNED,stream);
                    format = stream.getFormat();
               frameSize = format.getFrameSize();
               frames = stream.getFrameLength();
               lastFrame = frames;
               frameRate = format.getFrameRate();
               bufFrames = (int)(frameRate*bufTime);
               bufsize = frameSize * bufFrames;
               System.out.println("frameRate="+frameRate);
               System.out.println("frames="+frames+" frameSize="+frameSize+" bufFrames="+bufFrames+" bufsize="+bufsize);
               info=new Info(SourceDataLine.class,format,bufsize);
               line = (SourceDataLine)AudioSystem.getLine(info);
               line.addLineListener(this);
               line.open(format,bufsize);
               opened = true;
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               e.printStackTrace();
     public void stop()
          System.out.println ("Stopping");
          if(running)
               running = false;
               shutdown = true;
               if(playThread != null)
                    playThread.interrupt();
                    try{playThread.join();}
                    catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
          if (opened) close();
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          System.out.println("close line");
          line.close();
          try{stream.close();}catch(Exception e){}
          line.removeLineListener(this);
          opened = false;
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     public void setTimes(float t0, float tz)
          currentTime = t0;
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          if(tz > 0)
               lastFrame = (long)(frameRate*tz);
          else lastFrame = frames;
          if(lastFrame > frames)lastFrame = frames;
          if(firstFrame > lastFrame)firstFrame = lastFrame;
     public void playAsync(float start, float end)
          setTimes(start,end);
          playAsync();
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     public void playAsync()
          System.out.println("Play async");
          if(!opened)openSound();
          if(opened && !running)
               playThread = new Thread(new Runnable(){public void run(){play();}});
               playThread.start();
     public void play(float start, float end)
          setTimes(start,end);
          play();
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     public void play()
          if(!opened)openSound();
          if(opened && !running)
               running = true;
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               byte buf[] = new byte[writeSize];     // our io buffer
               int len;
               long framesRemaining = lastFrame-firstFrame;
               int framesRead;
               currentFrame=firstFrame;
               System.out.println("playing file, firstFrame="+firstFrame+" lastFrame="+lastFrame);
               try
                    line.start();
                    if(firstFrame > 0)
                         long sa = firstFrame * frameSize;
                         System.out.println("Skipping "+firstFrame+" frames="+sa+" bytes");
                         while(sa > 0)sa -= stream.skip(sa);
                    while (running && framesRemaining > 0)
                         len = stream.read(buf,0,writeSize); // read our block
                         if(len > 0)
                              framesRead = len/frameSize;
                              framesRemaining -= framesRead;
                              currentTime = currentFrame/frameRate;
                              if(currentTime < 0)throw(new Exception("time too low"));
                              System.out.println("time="+currentTime+" writing "+len+" bytes");
                              line.write(buf,0,len);
                              currentFrame+=framesRead;
                         else framesRemaining = 0;
                    if(running)
                         line.drain();                     // let it play out
                         while(line.isActive() && running)
                              System.out.println("line active");
                              Thread.sleep(100);
                         shutdown = true;
                    running = false;
               catch(Exception e)
                    e.printStackTrace();
                    shutdown = true;
                    running = false;
               if(shutdown)
                    close();
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     public float getTime()
          return ((float)line.getMicrosecondPosition())/1000000;
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     public float getLength()
          return (float)frames / frameRate;
     // stop the sound playback, return time in seconds
     public float pause()
          running = false;
          line.stop();
          return getTime();
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          System.out.println("Line event"+le.toString());
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                    clip = java.applet.Applet.newAudioClip(file.toURL()); // get the audio clip
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               System.out.println("Error building audio clip from file="+fnm);
               e.printStackTrace();
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               new Thread
               (new Runnable()
                         public void run()
                              rclip.play();
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            System.out.println(c.toString());
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        g.setValue(gain);
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        float gain = 0;
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          for(String arg : args) {
            for(int i = 0; i < arg.length(); i++) {
                char c = arg.charAt(i);
                if (c == '-') {
                    gain -= 1;
                } else if (c == '+') {
                    gain += 1;
                } else {
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        sp.showControls();
        System.out.println("setting gain to " + gain);
        sp.setGain(gain);
        sp.play();
}

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