[Asterisk-Users] TDM400P lockups (FXO)

[Michael George]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:43:26PM -0400, Michael George wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:08:19AM -0400, Alok K. Dhir wrote:
> > Hey all - we have two TDM400P cards in an SMP Redhat9 box, with 4 FXO 
> > ports each running thel latest Asterisk CVS.
> > 
> > Users connect to this to share POTS lines using analog phones connected 
> > to Sipura SPA-2000 boxes.  All works reasonably well, except every day 
> > (or more) a line will get "locked up".  No other way to describe it 
> > really -- the line just stops working, so if someone tries to dial out, 
> > and they happen to get assigned that port, all they hear is silence.
> > 
> > The only way to unlock the port is to stop asterisk, and unload and 
> > reload the zaptel drivers (service zaptel restart), and then restart 
> > asterisk.
> 
> I wish I could do this.  The times I've had ports lockup I was able to unload
> the drivers, but I would get complaints on reload, so I had to restart the
> computer.
> 
> That *really* aggitates me.
> 
> > I've seen other posts on the list referring to similar (same?) issues, 
> > but no resolutions.  I have been staying current with the CVS version 
> > biweekly in hopes the problem will get resolved at some point.  I have 
> > contacted Digium support (via email) about the issue.
> > 
> > Has anyone made any headway with this problem?

Well, I had the TDM act strange this afternoon and spontaneously drop the
line.  And as I expected, it locked up this evening.  It seems to have hung
the machine.

This system has not gone more than 4 days without a soft boot since I put the
TDM400 into it.  I've had it for 3.5 years and I'd never have to reboot it.
I'd have *months* of uptime.

I think there's something wrong with this card.  I can't imagine anyone
tolerating every-other-day reboots with a TDM card...

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-M

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