[Asterisk-Dev] Hardware details for the Digium TDM400P

[Leo Ann Boon]

list at asd-group.com wrote:

>>Mine's the 1GHz with a small fan. The only lousy thing about the 
>>Mini-ITX chipset - no APIC support. Without APIC, it's possible to run 
>>out of IRQs, esp if you're running both Ethernet and both IDEs. The BIOS 
>>doesn't seem to allow the USB to be turned off.
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>Does the BIOS allow the LPT and COM2-4 to be switched off, thereby freeing a
>couple of interrupts ?
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Yes, but some hardware might stubbornly refuse to use those free IRQs. I 
have one HFC ISDN card which simply must use IRQ 10, despite 5 and 3 
being free. The on-board USB controllers will hog 3 IRQs.

>I hope so, or I'm going to regret choosing the PD model (only did that
>because of the two LAN ports).
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>I was checking out the Travla C146 rackmount case that you mentioned - looks
>excellent and just what I needed, except (of course) that you cant get them
>here in Australia :-(
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Same here. Had to ship from US/Taiwan to Singapore.