Is it possible to make a bootable RAID on AMD 700 series chipset?

[ThinkDifferently]

Specifically, I have a motherboard with the South Bridge AMD SB700 chipset
for I/O and RAID support.  This RAID requires a driver to be loaded at boot
time (from the "ok" prompt) before the OS loads to recognize the RAID.

I'm trying to install the FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE onto a RAID-1 (Mirror) using
this chipset.

1) Is there a driver available in FreeBSD for this chipset (either natively
or externally; if external, where)?
2) Once I make a mirror and install an OS onto it, can I make it bootable?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Note, I'm not a hacker, but nor am I
a noob.

My motherboard is Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H.  I've already determined that
FreeBSD does install and run well on it (and only the 7.1 release supports
the 8111C onboard Ethernet LAN chipset).  However, I have no clue how to do
motherboard-based RAID with a boot-time driver in FreeBSD.

My attempts at using a RocketRAID PCI card failed...something about it
interfering with the onboard RAID chipset (even if it's disabled).  I cannot
boot from the RocketRAID, but that was a different thread entirely.

My main focus with this thread is can I get a FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE bootable
mirror on the SB700 chipset?  Unfortunately, I didn't find anything on the
FreeBSD.Org site regarding SB700.
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