875p FIS2R HDD Setup?

I need some help w/ setting up my HDD's.  I currently have a WD SATA Drive and a Hitachi PATA Drive.  I want to use the SATA for my Boot disk, and use the PATA Drive as a storage drive.  Id like to use the pata on IDE3 and possibly set up a raid 0 for that channel in future, or possibly set up a raid0 sata in the future.  Which drivers should I install, and how will that benefit me in the future if I'd like to add a raid 0 setup.
Thanks,
   LeoD

Maybe I wasnt clear enough.  My question is that If I set the SATA drive up as my boot disk and a PATA drive up on IDE 3, will either the Intel or Promise driver allow me to run w/out raid on these channels now, and then add another PATA drive down the road to do a raid 0, or two SATA drives (total of three SATA, one boot, the others in RAID).  If I do add two SATA drives down the road, can I also keep the PATA drive, possibly on IDE1 or IDE2 as well? (total of four drives)

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