Booting Mac Pro in Windows from SAS drive - has anyone else done this?

I'm trying to boot both Windows (Vista 64bit) and Mac OS X.5 from an internal SAS drive (I don't need RAID). I've done some research and discovered that the following options won't work:
Apple RAID card: (bootable, supports SAS, but no support for Windows)
CalDigit RAID card: (bootable in Mac and Windows, but no SAS support)
HighPoint RAID/SAS card: (not bootable in Mac Pro)
At present I've installed an Atto 308H SAS controller, but can't get it to boot.
Has anyone else successfully used the Atto card (or anything else)? If so, how did you do it?
Bryce.

Further to the above: I have now managed to install and boot Vista64 from the SAS drive.
For those interested, I booted into OS X (on a SATA drive) and installed the drivers for the Atto card, then flashed the card with the latest firmware (as at 13/9/08). After rebooting, I could see the SAS drive in either Mac or Windows - although I still couldn't boot from it, or install an OS to it.
I used the Atto "MakeDisk" utility to create a Windows driver folder on a USB Flash drive.
Then I attempted to install Vista (loading drivers from USB as approprate), but it wouldn't install to the SAS drive becuase it was a "GPT Style partition".
I rebooted into WinXP and used DiskPart (from the command prompt) to change the SAS drive from a GPT to an MBR disk.
After this I could install Vista sucessfully (still had to load drivers from the USB).
I've now created a second MBR partition on the SAS drive, and tomorrow I'm going to install the BootCamp drivers in Windows and then see if I can install OS X.5 on that partion.
I'm pretty happy, as even if I have to run OS X from a SATA drive, I've got what I wanted - a quiet, good-looking and realatively cheap high-end dual-boot PhotoShop machine (I use PhotoShop on Windows).

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