Newbie Question on Hardware Raid

Hi Guys, I am using Suse 7.0 evaluation copy with 2.2.16 smp kernel and my systems has a Adptec Ultra-Wide RAID Card AAA-131SA with two 4GB HDD, with a Build in Adaptec SCSI Controller and with Hot Swap Bay Supports (5 Ultra SCSI). If I compile the kernel to support RAID 1 does it copy the entire disk including all partitions on sda1 to sdb1? If not how to do it on my existing configuration with 2 4gb hdd? I want to configure something like HA once the main hdd crashes i can just easily switch to sdb1 or do i need a boot disk to work on sdb1? Any advice is very much appreciated. -- Jonathan J. Terbio = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =