[Asterisk-Users] dell and digium hardware

[Craig Guy]

I'm using the 850 series.  Works well.  Only major problem is having to use 
a third party PCI-e sata raid controller, well thats if you want HW raid in 
your system.

Craig

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Hanson" <tuxpert at comcast.net>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] dell and digium hardware


> Klaus Darilion wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I read in the archive a lot of problems using the Dell 1850 servers and 
>> digium TE4xxP and TE2xxP hardware. I wonder if ever anybody has tried the 
>> Dell Poweredge 850 series and can report some experiences?
>>
>> btw: Does somebody knows why there are problems with 1850 but not with 
>> 2850 (digium recommends the 2850 for their Business Edition)? AFAIK both 
>> have the same chipset and both use Intel onboard NICs.
>>
>> Thank's for any hints.
>> Regards
>> Klaus
>>
> We are using a PE 830 at a customer site (single port T1 and TDM10B [for 
> fax machine]).  I have had no problems.  The only thing I did was use a 
> pci nic and disabled the on-board ethernet.  I never tried the on-board, 
> so don't know if it would have caused problems.  I just saw a note on 
> Digium's site regarding this (but not for this particular model), and went 
> ahead and got an pci nic.
>
> I saw a posting once that indicated that Dell's eighth generation hardware 
> (800's, 1800's, 2800's) don't have problems w/ Digium cards like the 7th 
> gen did (700's, etc).  Don't know if this is true, but we went ahead and 
> tried the 830 and have been happy so far.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
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