Compat question: MSI P35, Q6600 + RocketRAID (?)

[Laszlo Nagy]

Hello, I'm building a small server computer.

I selected the following components:

MSI P35 Platinum motherboard (should be rev 1.1)
Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor
4 x 2048 DDR2 memory

The operating system will be FreeBSD 7.0 amd64.

Questions:

- Is the integrated gigabit LAN supported in FreeBSD 7.0?
- Is that motherboard works with FBSD 7.0, or should I choose a 
different one (for about the same price).

I also need to build a RAID 6 array. I would like to use the integrated 
SATA controller for the base system (gmirror with 2 disks on ICH9) and a 
PCI-E based RAID controller with 13 disks (12 in RAID 6 plus a hot spare 
drive). I'm not sure which RAID controller I should use. The controller 
must support these:

- RAID 6
- Hot swap
- Hot spare

I found a controller that can do this: RocketRAID 2340. Its 
documentation says that it support FreeBSD. Can somebody confirm that it 
works with FreeBSD 7.0?  Is there a better (faster/better supported/more 
stable) RAID card that I can use (for about the same price).

Also I do not know how to setup a RAID 6 array: from BIOS  or Freebsd? 
but that is not a hw question. **

Thanks,

    Laszlo