<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>This is an apples and oranges comparison, and there is no reason for us<br>to expect it to work any differently. The 'real' slot on the motherboard
<br>is PCI Express; the riser cards have bridge chips on them. Dell<br>obviously chose to implement the PCI-X riser in a different way than the<br>PCI-E riser, and the result is different behavior.<br><br>This goes back to my original point: the IRQ assignment behavior has
<br>nothing to do with the manufacturer/type/style of the card, and<br>everything to do with the implementation of PCI, IRQs, BIOS and other<br>bits by the system manufacturer.</blockquote><div><br><br>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.
<br><br>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.
<br><br>I guess what I'm saying is, Digium can stand there all day and blame the system makers, and I will stand here along side Digium and blame the system makers... but the system makers seem to not care. Sangoma has a PCI-e card that works fine. What is my only option if I wish to continue selling PBX systems? Exactly...and if others go this way it is bad for Digium's bottom line.
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