[asterisk-users] Digium Card: Power Connector, from SATA to NORMAL

[John covici]

How can you tell if a server will have enough power for such a card?
Most servers have power to spare.

on Sunday 05/04/2008 Jay R. Ashworth(jra at baylink.com) wrote
 > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 01:42:22PM +1000, Rob Hillis wrote:
 > >    Actually I can see exactly where this may be useful. I can think
 > >    of at least one customer off the top of my head who has insisted
 > >    on having a TDM2400 installed in a Dell server that we know
 > >    can't provide enough power to the card where it's being used as
 > >    a collection of FXS ports. Of course we've advised them of the
 > >    limitation, but they completely ignored us. :) Something like this
 > >    would have allowed us to provide a solution to a problem that is
 > >    likely to come back and bite us in the future.
 > 
 > Advise the customer in writing; make them sign it.
 > 
 > Cheers,
 > -- jra
 > -- 
 > Jay R. Ashworth                   Baylink                      jra at baylink.com
 > Designer                     The Things I Think                       RFC 2100
 > Ashworth & Associates     http://baylink.pitas.com                     '87 e24
 > St Petersburg FL USA      http://photo.imageinc.us             +1 727 647 1274
 > 
 > 	     Those who cast the vote decide nothing.
 > 	     Those who count the vote decide everything.
 > 	       -- (Joseph Stalin)
 > 
 > _______________________________________________
 > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com --
 > 
 > asterisk-users mailing list
 > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
 >    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici at ccs.covici.com