Confusion: SATA on 845PE Max2 ?

OK, I'm a little confused here
A couple of months ago, I bought a MSI 845PE Max2 (with SATA/RAID onboard)
At that time, my old IBM-ATA133-Hard disk was working fine, but now it's giving some problems, and I want to buy a new disk.
I was thinking about buying a SATA-disk (maxtor, 120Gb), but I don't get this: can I just plug this new disk on my motherboard, install my OS, an go?
Or does SATA only work in a RAID-setup?
and if it works without RAID, does it work the same as an old IDE-drive? (Buy disk => plug in => set as boot device => install OS)

So in other words:
1) I plug the disk into a serial ATA-connector
2) I boot with the win2000-install CD
3) When asked wether I want to install a RAID-controller, I press F6 and insert the disk that came with my mobo
4) I install windows2000 just like before
5) Ready to rock
Is this correct?
And how does this work when I want to create a dualboot (windows98 / windows2000 for example)?

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Well... I got the MSI 845PE Max2 - L (MS-6580 v2.0) on
order. Now I'm reading that alot of peeps having so
many problems with it! 8o
I just read a reply from Assaf saying that the board was SUED?
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sorry for my bad english first
i have a 845PE Max2 and i want to create a RAID 1 System with my 2 Harddisks. I have a Western Digital 80 GB (7200, 8MB Cache, UDMA/100) and a Seagate 80 GB (7200, 8MB Cache, SATA/150).
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