<html><body><br>There is a problem with Dell Servers and I experienced the same issue as you speak of with Dell 2900 Servers. I keep getting PCIe Training Error and Dell had to replace the raid controller. Take a look at IBM 3550.<br><br>
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Had it with Dell Garbage<br>
From: Norman Franke <norman@myasd.com><br>
Date: Tue, February 26, 2008 5:27 pm<br>
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com<br>
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<div><div>On Feb 26, 2008, at 4:13 PM, <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com" target="_blank" _onclick="Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=asterisk-users-request%40lists.digium.com');; return false;">asterisk-users-request@lists.digium.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Matt <<a href="mailto:mhoppes@gmail.com" target="_blank" _onclick="Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=mhoppes%40gmail.com');; return false;">mhoppes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></p> <blockquote type="cite" style="border-left: 2px solid blue; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">I've had it with Dell server garbage.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They seem to change RAID</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">controllers as much as I change socks, and then the controllers don't work</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">with Linux, unless you load a new driver.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They sell servers with a PCI-e</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">slot in them, but then you get it and find out the RAID controller is using</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">the PCI-e slot! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Their sales folks are dumber than rocks, and they change</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">them more often than I change underwear.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[end rant].</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Can anyone recommend an IBM or Gateway server that you have used with</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Asterisk and are happy with, and which will support RAID-1 or RAID-5 and has</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">room for one or two PCI-express interface cards?</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">HP DL380 is my baby.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Thanks,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Steve Totaro</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div>Ditto. We've been using HPs for a while without problem. I'm currently using a DL380 (a recent quad processor one) and it screams. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-Norman</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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