On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 00:01 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> 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.
Hmmm... I need to see what version of the BIOS is on this thing. When in
doubt, flash the BIOS.
http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_s2895.html
One of the items in the listing is..
* Fixed some PCI-X device Option ROM does not scan or
* initialize correctly
As for seeing the 3ware card under the boot order list, there are a
couple of entries that might be the 3Ware card (it's not spelled out
explicitly), and I don't recall the exact notation. One might be the PXE
nic and the other could be the 3Ware card.
--
Sean O'Connell
Office of Engineering Computing oconnell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD 858.534.9716 (49716)
