[asterisk-biz] Recent REMOTE CRASH BUG

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Matt wrote:
> I suppose... and everything you've said makes sence.  My point is, if
> manufacturers are going to start making systems like this, then, in my
> opinion, Digium perhaps should consider making PCI-e cards.    We've
> noticed this behaviour on Dell, IBM, and several other servers.

I already told you that we are aware of that issue. Did somebody tell
you that Digium had decided _NOT_ to make PCI-e cards?

> At any rate... as you state I do believe it is a MOBO/BioS thing... but
> you also said you have a 2950 in the office in which you are not having
> this IRQ issue.   I'm really interested to see what your tech guys have
> to say (I sent you a separate e-mail from my work account).  Believe me,
> I would *love* to see the Digium cards work in the Dell servers.....but
> as it stands right now, they aren't for many people.

I told you that based on your statements that putting a Sangoma card 'in
the same slot' exhibited different behavior. As it turns out, you were
not putting the card into the same slot, but in a different type of slot
that happened to be in the same physical position in the case (which
does not matter, of course). Given that, there's nothing we can do about
the fact that the Dell BIOS assigned a shared IRQ to the card; it's
nearly guaranteed that if you had used a Sangoma PCI-X card instead of a
PCI-e card you would have seen no change in IRQ assignments.

I'm glad you found a solution to your problem; it's probable that your
problem symptoms would have gone away if you had had access to our
newest Zaptel drivers, but you didn't and that's understandable.