SATA II Drive on K8N - SLI Mobo

Hello Folks,
Please can you give a few words of wisdom on the following topic:
I've recently upgraded to the K8N - SLI mobo with AMD 64 3200 CPU, 1GB ram and a Hitachi 250gb SATA II drive.
I booted from the WinXP disc, selected F6 to install additional raid drivers, accepted, and proceeded to install XP which works fine. The system boots ok but the BIOS (flashed using MS Live Update to version 2) shows the drive as 5th IDE master, and then WinXP "system, device manager" shows the drive as Primary ATA.
Is that right? It works but how do i know it has detected it up right?
I've disconnected my original 2 hard drives from IDE1 for simplicity, and the 2 optical drives load fine on the IDE2 cable. My RAID drivers come from the Nvidia site since i didn't get a diskette with the OEM drive.
Did i need to install the drivers from a floppy (i have an MSI CD)?
When asked for 2 separate drivers which should come first, the RAID driver or the STORAGE CONTROLLER?
Is everything normal? Should the drive be called SATA type somewhere?
Many thanks for your help.
mick

Thanks for the reply there Petrol. I thought the raid drivers were the name for the SATA drivers i.e. one and the same thing, so although I will not use RAID, I think i need still need the RAID/SATA driver?
I thought I had just cracked it- a short time after providing the extra 2 RAID drivers during the boot, WinXP asked me again for the RAID driver (which i read elsewhere was a good sign!).
It appeared to boot faster or was it just my imagination hoping for a result?Then once the WinXP desktop had come on, it appeared to load some more drivers.
Still when i look in "System....Device manager" the driver is from Windows from 2001 so can't be up to date?
Has it managed to write over the top of the newer SATA drivers during the final part of the install (if so how to turn it off?)?
thanks again
mick

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