[Asterisk-Users] dell and digium hardware

[Klaus Darilion]

Which digium card do you use? 1 port or 2/4 port E1/T1? or TDM?

klaus

Craig Guy wrote:
> I'm using the 850 series.  Works well.  Only major problem is having to 
> use a third party PCI-e sata raid controller, well thats if you want HW 
> raid in your system.
> 
> Craig
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Hanson" <tuxpert at comcast.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] dell and digium hardware
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>> Klaus Darilion wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I read in the archive a lot of problems using the Dell 1850 servers 
>>> and digium TE4xxP and TE2xxP hardware. I wonder if ever anybody has 
>>> tried the Dell Poweredge 850 series and can report some experiences?
>>>
>>> btw: Does somebody knows why there are problems with 1850 but not 
>>> with 2850 (digium recommends the 2850 for their Business Edition)? 
>>> AFAIK both have the same chipset and both use Intel onboard NICs.
>>>
>>> Thank's for any hints.
>>> Regards
>>> Klaus
>>>
>> We are using a PE 830 at a customer site (single port T1 and TDM10B 
>> [for fax machine]).  I have had no problems.  The only thing I did was 
>> use a pci nic and disabled the on-board ethernet.  I never tried the 
>> on-board, so don't know if it would have caused problems.  I just saw 
>> a note on Digium's site regarding this (but not for this particular 
>> model), and went ahead and got an pci nic.
>>
>> I saw a posting once that indicated that Dell's eighth generation 
>> hardware (800's, 1800's, 2800's) don't have problems w/ Digium cards 
>> like the 7th gen did (700's, etc).  Don't know if this is true, but we 
>> went ahead and tried the 830 and have been happy so far.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kevin
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