Knoppix worked perfectly, found them at boot and made entries under /mnt. Mounted the entires, and am currently rsyncing them over at slow but acceptable rate. I really wish there was an easy way to know where the bottleneck actually is at this point. It's going at about 1mb per seccond, which is slower than the drive should be able to handle, and slower than the USB2.0 bus, slower than the gigabit ethernet and hopefully slower than the ide raid 5 array with three disks.

Matthew