[Asterisk-Users] * box hangs after a couple of days...

[Lyle Giese]

I doubt it's the zaptel drivers.  I have an ASUS motherboard(Athlon 2.4g
512meg ram 500 mhz front side bus) using it's VIA SATA to mirror two SATA
drives, two TDM400P cards, scsi tape backup, running Suse 9.0 & EXT3 across
the board except SWAP.

One thing we have noticed here at LCR is memory speed on the new
motherboards gets set to auto detect in bios and that can cause all kinds of
problems.  Resetting the bios to hard set the memory speed clears up alot of
these random crashes.

Lyle

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Loftis" <mloftis at wgops.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] * box hangs after a couple of days...


>
>
> --On Tuesday, October 12, 2004 13:15 -0500 Steven Critchfield
> <critch at basesys.com> wrote:
>
> > You seem to have too much confidence in your raid setup. I'm wondering
> > if you are using a highpoint semi software raid since you have mentioned
> > an AMD machine and IDE drives. You probably are having IDE problems
> > arising from the number of interupts needed for zap hardware. Looks like
> > you need to go looking for some replacement hardware.
>
> No I hate those highpoints.  Using Standard IDE, the Promise 'RAID' is
> disabled.  We have a SCSI box here that's been purchased for the PBX
> permanent home, but if this is how the Zaptel hardware makes a box behave,
> interrupt loss causing severe disk corruption on a box that is sitting
> around doing *NOTHING* then something is severely wrong either with the
> hardware, or the drivers.  The box was entirely idle.  Only thing it's
ever
> done is sit, it's handled a total of 100 test calls as I've been setting
it
> up and screwed itself up pretty royally twice now.
>
> No hardware, and especially no kernel driver, should misbehave so badly as
> to cause a system to hose itself.  For the future I'm going ot have to
look
> for alternate hardware, but for the moment I'm stuck with the T100P,
> TDM400, and Zaptel.
>
> I'm really disappointed in all of this, * has come a long way, however the
> hardware is still very young it seems.
>
> I am going to try it in the P4SBR SCSI system but I've stopped holding my
> breath.  I'm just hoping it'll work because I'm against a deadline now.
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