great, thanks for the response @Frank1940, i will do some more digging, but I have looked through most of those search results and they were concentrated more on not seeing devices, which has not been an issue for me. I can see unassigned devices without issue. the problem i am having is when I try to copy from an unassigned drive to my array, i run into my system locking up or krusader giving me a "stalled" message. either way, both require a restart and trying to pick up where it left off before it crashed.
oh and it just stalled again at 17% of a 735gb transfer