Second on Sangoma, don't forget that their hardware has lifetime warranties, but the OP already stated his budget was too tight.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Steve Totaro<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Bruce Nik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brucevoip@gmail.com">brucevoip@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>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.</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Greg Woods <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg@gregandeva.net" target="_blank">greg@gregandeva.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I am having to abandon asterisk after having used it for 2.5 years due<br>
to this problem. Every couple of days (sometimes more often, sometimes<br>
less), the machine will lock up because the TDM board or the Dahdi<br>
driver goes south. /var/log/messages starts filling up with repeated<br>
messages:<br>
<br>
kernel: TDM PCI Master abort<br>
<br>
The card I have is:<br>
<br>
*CLI> dahdi show status<br>
Description Alarms IRQ bpviol<br>
CRC4<br>
Wildcard TDM400P REV I Board 5 OK 0 0<br>
0<br>
<br>
<br>
I asked about this once before and I am asking again in desperation, as<br>
I have had to shut off my asterisk server, take all the VOIP phones out<br>
of service, and go back to the bad old days of a single cordless phone<br>
base with a couple of handsets and a crappy old WalMart answering<br>
machine. This sucks.<br>
<br>
Last time I asked, the most helpful answer I got was privately, saying<br>
that either my card is bad, or I might need a different motherboard (but<br>
there is no way I know of to know which motherboards would work and<br>
which would not; the last thing I would want is to go through the<br>
expense and major hassle of swapping motherboards only to find out that<br>
the problem is not fixed).<br>
<br>
The only decent diagnostic I have is that if I catch it soon enough,<br>
before the system totally locks up, then stopping asterisk, restarting<br>
dahdi, and starting asterisk gets things working again (until the next<br>
incident). Also, I can go into asterisk -r and do "dahdi show status"<br>
and the card doesn't have any alarms; the output is the same as above,<br>
even as the PCI Master abort messages are spewing into the syslog.<br>
<br>
If my Wildcard TDM board is bad, is there anything I can do about it, or<br>
am I just S.O.L. after this much time? The blasted card costs as much as<br>
a new machine; either way I can't afford it right now. I don't want to<br>
abandon asterisk as it has so many nice features, but I am running low<br>
on alternatives at the moment.<br>
<br>
--Greg<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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