[asterisk-users] Problems using TE412P and TDM400B in a IBM x3650

[Matthew Fredrickson]

James FitzGibbon wrote:
> Another day, another apparant unexplained hardware incompatibility.
> 
> I have a TE412P and a TDM400B living quite happily in a whitebox using an
> Intel motherboard:
> 
> http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/se7230nh1-e/index.htm
> 
> I tried to move to an IBM x3650 system.  It uses a slightly newer chipset,
> but apparantly it's in the same family.  The SE-7230 board has been EOL'd
> and the suggested replacement uses the same chipset as the x3650.  I had to
> get a PCI-X riser cage to put the cards into, as the server only supports
> PCIe as shipped.
> 
> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/rack/x3650/specs.html
> 
> When I just have the TE412P in the server, no problems.  If I put both the
> TE412P and the TDM400B in, I get no end of errors.  When I put the TE412P in
> the first PCI-X slot and the TDM400B in the second, then none of my PRI
> channels will get out of red alarm - they go red as soon as I load zaptel,
> and stay there through ztcfg, starting asterisk, restarting zaptel via the
> Asterisk CLI, etc.
> 
> If I swap the cards, then only one of the ports (#4) stays in red alarm,
> while the other 3 seem to be fine.
> 
> I checked /proc/interrupts, and both cards were getting their own interrupt
> (forgot to save the output unfortunately, and I'm back on the original
> hardware right now).
> 
> Has anyone run this type of hardware combo successfully, or had similar
> problems on other hardware that they got around?

Can you make sure Digium tech support hears about this, so that it can 
be addressed?

Thanks,

-- 
Matthew Fredrickson
Software/Firmware Engineer
Digium, Inc.