[asterisk-biz] Recent REMOTE CRASH BUG

[shadowym]

So you prefer IRQ and sound quality issues to "the extra hassle of the
driver installation for a Sangoma card"? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Remco Barendse [mailto:asterisk at barendse.to] 
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:31 AM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Recent REMOTE CRASH BUG

>
> Oh I looked.  I had a thread going the other week! Kevin is assuring 
> me that shouldn't be the case, and said in a 2950 they have in the lab 
> this is not the case and that someone will contact me from Digium to 
> find out what's going on... so I look forward to that to try to resolve
these issues.
>
> I agree that the Dell SHOULD allow you to independantly put cards on 
> an IRQ, however I will not accept what you say that the Sangoma will share
as
> well.     I am looking in the BioS.   The Digium card went right onto the
> same IRQ as all the NICs.. the Sangoma card was allowed to sit on its own
> IRQ.     This is the BioS reporting it, not the OS..... the Sangoma was
> allowed to have its own IRQ.  All these threads you see are about 
> DIGIUM cards in 2950s.. do you see any about Sangoma cards in 2950s?

AFAIK (and I'm pretty sure) ;) it's not the PCI that decides whether an
interrupt will be shared or not but it is the mobo where stuff is hardwired
to share an IRQ with another device. This is my huge problem with Dell
machines, how on earth can you hardwire interrupts to such basic devices as
the onboard 2 nics plus scsi controllers while leaving other IRQ's unused.
If really needed they could have hardwired some devices to IRQ's you are
most likely not to need in a rack server (like a second serial port or
parallell port). This is just poor design.

> This says to me there is an issue with the way the Digium cards are 
> reporting something to the BioS... but I'll leave this for Digium to 
> discuss with me.. and if we find a resolution I'll bring it to the list.

Better read again, the Sangoma *must* share the same IRQ as a Digium card,
it's just that Sangoma is advertised to handle irq sharing better. I never
tried though, I don't like the extra hassle of the driver installation for a
Sangoma card.