[Asterisk-Users] Re: Anyone aware of a current Dell server modelwith 3PCI slots

[pdhales at optusnet.com.au]

I know of an install using a 2850 where it ran much better after they
disabled the onboard network card.

PaulH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hayden" <haydenth at msu.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Anyone aware of a current Dell server
modelwith 3PCI slots


> Yeah, with our Dell Poweredge 750, we had all kinds of IRQ conflicts
> and whatnot. I booted up and in the BIOS I turned off all sorts of
> devices, including one of the ethernet cards, the USB, serial, etc.
> After that, things worked much better.
>
> --
> Tom
>
> On 11/2/05, Matt <mhoppes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >We have a poweredge 2850 that we use for our VoIP server and it has 3
PCI slots.
> >
> > > I'm greeting to hear this. I have installed some Digium cards into
this
> > > kind of servers.
> > > I get surprised when the slots pci gets shared IRQ with ethernet
> > > devices, raid controller or VGA card.
> > > Anybody knows how get unshare the IRQ of the slots pci ? (firmware,
> > > update, some special BIOS configuration,...)
> > > We answered Dell with no response.
> >
> > I can't say that I've had this problem with the 2850 we have.   I also
> > can't take the server down to look at it right now, however we just
> > got another digium card which I need to put in at some point over the
> > next few days, so I'll be taking it down sometimes soon.
> >
> > As far as sharing, make sure you have disabled everything you don't
> > need.... USB, SERIAL, PARALLEL, etc.
> >
> > You can then set the PCI IRQ in the BIOS, I believe.
> >
> >            CPU0       CPU1
> >   0:  584222710  584230408    IO-APIC-edge  timer
> >   1:          0          7    IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
> >   2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
> >   8:          0          1    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
> >  14:          0          2    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
> >  38:    6712019    8751310   IO-APIC-level  megaraid
> >  48:  318573642         37   IO-APIC-level  eth0
> >  77: 1014625786 2080170691   IO-APIC-level  t1xxp
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