nForce4 RAID + Vista = Not happening?

[Flapjack]

I took a RAID0 array I built on an nForce3 motherboard and moved it to a new computer with an nForce4 chipset (after backing it up, of course).

I didn't expect the newer chipset to be able to read the array, but to my surprise, it said "Healthy" when I got to the RAID BIOS during boot.

At first, Vista found the controller as an traditional IDE controller. I found some beta drivers for Vista, rebooted, and it's now being labeled as a RAID controller, but Disk Management still reports the array as two separate drives (one initialized, one not).

Now, I've read plenty about SLI being broken in Vista, but I didn't know RAID was broken, too. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Terillius]

Have you solved this problem yet? I have been working on it for hours reinstalling drivers, etc., and I cannot get the drives to merge.

I have followed the instructions in the beta rc2 driver package which seems to be the latest vista driver available. (BETA from nvidia.com)

 

[Flapjack]

Nope. I gave up and put XP back on. On top of that, I cannot get my nForce3 system to work with my AGP X850 either. So both systems are running XP again.

Freaking nvidia....

 

[Terillius]

Yeah, still no luck for me. I am back to vanilla XP. I was getting so frustrated I didn't even bother with nLite. I forgot how cartoony regular XP looks.

I tried to upgrade to vista from a working XP install with WHQL raid drivers, but the install claimed that my CD is kaput. The CD works fine when you boot to it and install though.

I really like Vista though. It may be the first MS OS that I have ever bought at retail.