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.

 

[madman045]

Thing is, it's not vista that's the problem, I haven't come across a LSI vista driver yet.

As for getting your money back, i doubt that very much as its your hardware that has the compatibility issue, not vista

It just so happens vista does not have a driver in its database for that specific card.

This is one reason why i've not installed my adaptec scsi raid card in my pc with vista currently on it.

 

[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?

 

[cavemanoc]

I know it's a really basic one - but you have set up the array on the card bios haven't you? If so it might be worth trying to source different dirvers (or re-copying the ones you've got) could be a corruption on the dvd?

If all else fails try a differnet version of the driver (xp?) _ worth a go>

 

[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?