[asterisk-users] TDM400P/FXS in a HP DL380 G5

[Hans Witvliet]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 12:54 -0500, James FitzGibbon wrote:
> The HP DL380 G5 (like many rack servers) has no AMP Mate-n-Lok
> connector available to attach to a card that needs more power than the
> PCI bus can provide, like the TDM400P when FXS modules are used.  HP
> has confirmed that there is no part they sell to give you such a
> connector, and Digium says their business edition folks got it to
> work, but only by doing nasty warranty-voiding things to the internal
> wiring. 
> 
> Has anyone figured out a solution for this?  Something along the lines
> of an external power brick whose output attaches to a backplane slot
> and gives you a 12V connector inside the server?
> 
> Or am I just SOL? 
> 
> Thanks

It was exactly because of this (voiding garantee on a bunch of DL380-G4)
that i had to advice to expand their Aterisk-configuration with either:
1) ordinary desktop with one or more TDM's
2) multiport ata's
3) T1 + channelbanks

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