[Asterisk-Users] Will Digium Wildard work with PCI-X or PCI Express

[Matt Roth]

Chuck,

This is my mistake.  I thought that only the X100P was dubbed a 
Wildcard.  All of my posts regarding this subject are specific to the X100P.

Matthew Roth
InterMedia Marketing Solutions
Software Engineer and Systems Developer

Chuck Bunn wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You stated that Digium is discontinuing the Wildcard series - that 
> would be there whole product line! In particular I am looking at the 
> Wildcard TDM 400P series of cards..
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt Roth wrote:
>
>> Don't bank on it.  We were going to use a Wildcard as a timing source 
>> on our Dell PowerEdge 6850 and the BIOS didn't see it.  Depending on 
>> the PCI-X slot I installed it in, sometimes the box wouldn't even 
>> boot.  For perspective the 6850 has 4 PCI-e slots, and 3 PCI-X slots 
>> (one 64-bit 133 MHz, two 32-bit 100 MHz).
>>
>> I believe the timing is only needed for music on hold, IAX trunking, 
>> and MeetMe conferencing.  We're not doing trunking or conferencing 
>> (for now) so we're going with ztdummy.  If the timing isn't perfect 
>> only our music on hold will suffer, which is no big deal.  If we run 
>> into other problems, we might try popping our quad-span card in there 
>> just to see if it works.
>>
>> Keep in mind that Digium no longer produces Wildcards.  I'm not sure 
>> why they don't work with our 6850 and the techs at Dell didn't know 
>> either.  Maybe they are not 100% PCI compliant.
>>
>> Matthew Roth
>> InterMedia Marketing Solutions
>> Software Engineer and Systems Developer
>>
>> Kevin Bockman wrote:
>>
>>> Chuck Bunn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know if the Digium Wildcard will work on a PCI Express 
>>>> or PCI-X motherboard. Specifically I am looking at the Dell 850 1U 
>>>> rack server for use with Asterisk.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> They will work in PCI-X of course  but not PCI Express.  They are 
>>> totally different.
>>>
>>> You will need the 3.3v cards.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kevin
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