Problem installing Vista on LSI Logic RAID

[matja]

I've got a Vista Ultimate 32bit DVD, and a machine with an LSI Logic 320-2X SCSI RAID card onto which I'd like to install it.

So I pop in the DVD, boot and wait patiently (lucky I'm patient, it takes 10 minutes to get past an ugly 640x480 VGA splash screen with no indication of progress) until I'm presented with a dialog box stating that I have no HD's, and asks if I wish to load a driver.

Foreseeing something like this happening, I took the trouble of burning the latest LSI Logic drivers for Vista, downloaded from the website 30 minutes before, onto a DVD. Put that DVD in, click on the driver I want to use, and Vista still claims that my RAID card, the logical volumes, and even the physical disks do not exist.

Is there anything else I can try before I give this up?
Am I entitled to a refund?

Its a shame that XP, Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux and even DOS (!) support my hardware and Vista doesn't.

 

[matja]

Vista 32bit and 64bit drivers have been on LSI's site for 2 weeks now - thing is, I'm not sure if the installer is even loading the driver, I select it in the file browser, it has a think for a minute or so, then tells me I have no disks again.
It doesn't actually state if loading the driver worked or not, or if it even found the card - is this normal?

 

[matja]

Yeah I'm running XP and Linux on seperate logical volumes on the same hardware, I have a black logical volume I created for Vista but it doesn't see any of them.

I've tried the official LSI Logic drivers for Vista, XP and Win 2003 with same results.

It's weird that the "Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor" tells me there are no issues at all with the hardware, and it'll be a painless upgrade, apparently! So where is it getting this idea from? Is there another source of drivers which Microsoft has access to?