recently bought a dvd burner and need to free up an ide channel so i've decided to put my 2 hard drives on the onboard raid array, i just going to have them striped (1 p or 2 im not sure) and was wondering is there were any special settings or paramaters i should put in when creating the array

Asus P4C800 Deluxe
2x 40 GB Maxtor IDE Hard Drives

any suggestions/ideas?