[Asterisk-Users] What is the best Dell Machine for Asterisk?

[William Boehlke]

Read the original post too fast. The 850 has only one useable slot. The 830
appears to have a couple.


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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kerry Garrison
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I thought they had several available PCI slots. 

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Boehlke
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The 830s are nice but limited because they do RAID on a card and have but
one suitable PCI slot. So you can have an interface card or RAID, but not
both.




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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kerry Garrison
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I am looking at the 830 systems now. I have heard good reports from other
users and the price point for a loaded system is still dirt cheap. Any
comments on this particular model?
-Kerry
 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Kristian
Kielhofner
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:27 PM
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Kerry Garrison wrote:
> The SC430 will experience unusable call quality with a TDM400P due to 
> IRQ Sharing problems. If you have some magic to get around this, 
> please share because everyone I know that has tried using an SC430 has 
> given up and switched to other platforms.
> -Kerry
>  

All recent Dell systems support APIC.  However, most kernels (at least from
RedHat, probably others) do not enable APIC on single processor machines.
If this is the case, try rebuilding the kernel to support APIC on
uniprocessor machines.  This should resolve any IRQ sharing problems.


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