P4C800-E Deluxe Bios Setup?

[UncleCC]

I have P4C800-E Deluxe MB with the following stuff.
P4 2.8 w/HT, 1 gig 3200ram, ATI9800XT 256Meg, WD 120gig SATA set as my system HD, Maxtor 160Gig 133 HD connected to the 133 connector. a cd writer, and a DVD writer..

What I would like to know is..What is the BEST way to connect the drives for the best preformance..and in the BIOS what is the best best settings to use..this may be a long answer, but I just feel like I am missing something in the BIOS..Maybe if someone could peek at the manual or from experience tell me the best settings to use. I am not overclocking or do I want to..if that helps..The MB BIOS is up to date as of yesterday..oh and I am running Windows XP Pro..

Again, I just feel that I am missing something or I just don't have it set right..

Or Should I use the SATA as my secondary drive and run the PC off of the Maxtor..etc etc.

Thanks people for any input..

Or like I said in another thread..maybe time to go 64bit..

[Crashman]

Whichever drive has the better numbers, I'd use for the main drive. SATA 150 drives normally don't exceed ATA100 transfers, then again neither to ATA133 drives, you have to look at actual data transfer rates, which you can get from reading reviews.

Assuming the SATA is a hair faster, I'd use that as the system drive. Disable RAID for the SATA controller since you're using one drive, disable the other RAID controller because you don't need it and it slows boot time. Connect it to the Intel SATA controller, in non-RAID mode.

You don't even need a driver floppy for the Intel SATA controller when RAID mode is disabled.

You're not going to see huge performance numbers because drives simply haven't progressed very far in the last 4 years, except for capacity of course.