[Asterisk-Dev] X100P question

[Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:28:46 -0300, Jorge Merlino <jorge at teledata.com.uy> wrote:
> 
> We have had some issues with irq losses with more than three cards in
> the same PCI bus. What exactly did you tuned to make it work fine with 5
> cards?

Get yourself an old PowerMac from the junk yard or a second hand
store, ie a PM 9500 (ca.1997), install LinuxPPC, ie Yellow Dog Linux,
aka YDL (= Red Hat for PPC) and you can use 5 or 6 Zaptel cards
without any problems. Macs don't have interrupt issues.

The PM 9000 series and the PM 8600 all have PCI. Be careful though not
to buy a PM 8100. The PM 8100 had the same case, so it looks just like
any 9xxx, but it didn't have PCI.

Depending on where you are, you can expect to pay anywhere between 0
and 200 bucks for a PM 9xxx. For more info on those vintage Macs see
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac/index.html

rgds
benjk
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