[Asterisk-Dev] X100P question

[Steve Szmidt]

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On Saturday 04 September 2004 08:48 pm, Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists 
wrote:
> 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

How about the G3's? Would they not be even better as they have both PCI and 
10/100 NIC's?

- -- 
Steve

"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
                                Benjamin Franklin

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