[asterisk-users] TDM 400 hardware(?) issue

[Steve Totaro]

Second on Sangoma, don't forget that their hardware has lifetime warranties,
but the OP already stated his budget was too tight.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Bruce Nik <brucevoip at gmail.com> wrote:

> My experience with Sangoma cards has been amazing. They always provide
> support to not only Asterisk based systems but also to others. They are just
> amazing and as their slogan says, "because it must work" it just does
> without failiure. I never used a Digium card, but I never seen any other
> company with so much free support available.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
>
>> I am having to abandon asterisk after having used it for 2.5 years due
>> to this problem. Every couple of days (sometimes more often, sometimes
>> less), the machine will lock up because the TDM board or the Dahdi
>> driver goes south. /var/log/messages starts filling up with repeated
>> messages:
>>
>> kernel: TDM PCI Master abort
>>
>> The card I have is:
>>
>> *CLI> dahdi show status
>> Description                              Alarms     IRQ        bpviol
>> CRC4
>> Wildcard TDM400P REV I Board 5           OK         0          0
>> 0
>>
>>
>> I asked about this once before and I am asking again in desperation, as
>> I have had to shut off my asterisk server, take all the VOIP phones out
>> of service, and go back to the bad old days of a single cordless phone
>> base with a couple of handsets and a crappy old WalMart answering
>> machine. This sucks.
>>
>> Last time I asked, the most helpful answer I got was privately, saying
>> that either my card is bad, or I might need a different motherboard (but
>> there is no way I know of to know which motherboards would work and
>> which would not; the last thing I would want is to go through the
>> expense and major hassle of swapping motherboards only to find out that
>> the problem is not fixed).
>>
>> The only decent diagnostic I have is that if I catch it soon enough,
>> before the system totally locks up, then stopping asterisk, restarting
>> dahdi, and starting asterisk gets things working again (until the next
>> incident). Also, I can go into asterisk -r and do "dahdi show status"
>> and the card doesn't have any alarms; the output is the same as above,
>> even as the PCI Master abort messages are spewing into the syslog.
>>
>> If my Wildcard TDM board is bad, is there anything I can do about it, or
>> am I just S.O.L. after this much time? The blasted card costs as much as
>> a new machine; either way I can't afford it right now. I don't want to
>> abandon asterisk as it has so many nice features, but I am running low
>> on alternatives at the moment.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>>
>>
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