[Asterisk-Dev] RE: Hardware support for TDM

[tmassey at obscorp.com]

asterisk-dev-admin at lists.digium.com wrote on 07/29/2003 07:45:25 AM:

> Il mar, 2003-07-29 alle 01:46, timecop at pbx.mine.nu ha scritto:
>
> > There are 3 PCI slots, one is used by the second NIC and 2 other empty.
> > The card locked up 3 times while being in the slot next to the NIC,
> > Haven't locked up yet after I moved it to the farthest away PCI slot,
but
> > I haven't been touching asterisk or zap-related stuff as much as I
could
> > help it.
> >
> > When the card "crashes", it stops generating interrupts according to
> > /proc/interrupts. removing wcfxs module "works", reinsterting it fails
> > wiht "unable to determine freshmaker version". After this a reboot is
> > required.
>
> Same thing here with the TDM10B, on an old PCServer 330 featuring the
> same chipset as far as I can tell, and probably much of the mainboard.
> No solution to found in MANY hours, and I wouldn't think that the power
> supply has to do with that - that Delta Electronics is probably the best
> I've ever had. :)

It sounds like IBM servers have this problem commonly.  I've had problems
with the TDM10B and two identical IBM Netfinity 3500 servers.  I sent one
of them to Digium:  hopefully they'll be able to use it to figure out why
it doesn't work!

Tim Massey