New mobo, sata drive and X86_64 question

Hello! I have just purchased a new msi mobo with and Athlon 64 together with a SATA II harddrive, I plan on installing the OpenSuSE 10.1 X86_64 on the sata drive and was curious if there is anything specific I need to know before I commence. Also, is it possible to have the sata drive as the primary boot device along with an EIDE drive on one of the ide interfaces. Thanks John -- Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org