Hey everyone, for what it's worth, I just wrote a how-to detailing the process of installing FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE directly onto a 6Gbps LSI Logic RAID card that requires the newer mps driver. It can be found here: http://blog.eracks.com/2011/08/lsi-logic-6gbps-mps-driver-for-freebsd-8-2-release/ James