[Asterisk-Users] Qs about FXO/FXS cards

[Steven Critchfield]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 09:06 +1300, Richard Scobie wrote:
> 
> Steven Critchfield wrote:
> 
> > Okay, link this to my rambling above and you would see that by thrashing
> > the disk, you are actually keeping the spindle spooled up and not
> > measuring the spool up draw. My guess is a spooled down machine getting
> > a random incoming call that then must generate ring and spool up the
> > HD(s) to start writing logs at the same time on a questionable PSU.   
> 
> ??!  Who set's up servers with hard drives that are spun down?
> 
> Powered down hard disks are for laptops and specialised setups where 
> power consumption is critical. These are probably not where people 
> install serious asterisk servers.

And we come full circle to a comment I made before that TDM cards are
more for hobbyist than for real serious installs. A real install is
probably going to use a T1/E1 interface and bypasses all the troubles
listed in this thread.

So far I don't trust that many of the people using TDM cards are the
ones who will tweak a system into a serious install. Look at previous
threads about system load spikes where we have to pull teeth to get
people to swap out of a FC kernel and into a generic kernel.
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>