[Asterisk-Users] Re: Digium Hardware Reliability

[M.Hockings]

Brian Capouch wrote:
> M.Hockings wrote:
> 
>>>
>>>> Mike (totally UNimpressed with Digium)
> 
>>
>>
>> Point taken.  I was not so much point fingers but asking what my 
>> expectation should be and maybe shedding some frustration.  I don't 
>> really have a lot of experience with this kind of communications gear 
> 
> All the more reason for you to fully inform yourself *first*, and then 
> start posting negative drivel to a public mailing list.
> 
> B.
> 

Fully inform myself of exactly what? Googling for TDM400P diagnostics 
didn't get far and before posting I had already removed and reseated the 
card and all it's connections, verified the configuration and all that. 
  I did all this because my background in chip and board design tells me 
that a great many problems are primarily loose connections.  After all 
that the card was NOT responding and appeared dead.  I would expect that 
even a transient on the PSTN line would only blow the FXO daughter card 
and not leave the PCI card itself unresponsive.

Even now, given that I don't know what caused the problem or what solved 
the problem (for the time being). I might expect that powering the 
system off may cause software errors due to partially written files but 
I would NOT expect it to damage the hardware, particularly just a comm 
card.  Hence *my* feeling for *this* card is that it is unreliable.  It 
is however reassuring to hear that overall the reliability of the Digium 
hardware is good.

Mike