WinPE Marvell RAID Controller not loading

I am having problems with our Marvell SAS Controllers not loading in WinPE on Lenovo D20 and D30. I have added what I suspect to be the correct drivers for the controller in my boot image.

You could test that you have the correct driver by doing the following steps:
Download the appropriate driver from the vendor's site, make sure to get the correct architecture (x86 or x64, depending which WinPE -image are you using)
Copy the driver (the .inf file) to USB-stick (or burn it to CD/DVD)
Enable command line support for your boot image from the ConfigMgr -console
Deploy task sequence using your boot image to the machine in case (make sure you have the SAS controller configured and disks behind it)
When the WinPE boots up, hit F8 to open up command line, you can stop the task sequence progress in the background at this time
Check with diskpart are there any disks connected (diskpart -> list disk)
If there are not any disks, try loading the driver (.inf -file) for your controller by running
drvload driverfilename.inf
Check with diskpart does the disk show up now (diskpart -> list disk)

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