On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 21:01 -0700, Sean O'Connell wrote:
I do see the 3Ware BIOS at boot. Trouble is once the box has booted, no love.
Oh, so you _are_ seeing the 3Ware BIOS.
If you go into the "Boot" portion of the Phoenix ServerBIOS, you should also see the 3Ware card as a boot option under disks (and can move around the order) -- correct?
So now it looks like it might be the Linux kernel.
See above. Card is seen during POST. Yeppers. No love.
Hmmm, it's a "long shot," but you could try the nForce package from nVidia. I seriously doubt it will do a thing, because the package is pretty much just peripheral support (ATA, NIC, audio etc...), GPL components that are already in stock kernel 2.4.23+/2.6.5+ (with exception of the older/alternative OSS audio and older NIC drivers).
The APIC, I2C, PCI, etc... issues are not what those packages address. I.e., when most people say "a chipset is not supported by Linux," they are talking about the peripheral components in the chipset, not the core APIC, I2C, PCI, etc...
BTW, I saw a note on the nVidia CK04 (nVidia Pro 2200) chipset in Red Hat Bugzilla, but it seemed unrelated. It was also for CentOS 3, not CentOS 4. No searches anywhere are turning up issues with 3Ware cards on the S2895 mainboard.