K7n2 with a serial ata addin card

I have a k7n2 without the serial ata controller, athlon 2400, 512 mb ddr 333, and a winfast geforce 2 mx 64.  my question is will i be able to boot off of an addin serial ata card and a western digital raptor 36 gig hard drive.  also will the bios be able to recognize this as the primary drive and windows xp show it as the c: drive.  i will also be connecting a cd-rom drive to the built on ide controller.  there are no other cards in any of the pci slots on the mb.  i am not sure what brand of ata controller card i will be purchasing so any advise on this is also appreciated.
Thanks Richard

you will also have to hit f6 as xp install starts and feed in the drivers on a floppy that come with the card
slot 3 should be good for it as well

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