[asterisk-users] help with picking out a digium card.

[Martin]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM, randall <randall at songshu.org> wrote:
> On 01/17/2010 09:25 PM, shawn bright wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> We have been using a TDM400 card at work to provide our IVR.
>> We we have upgraded our server and now require the same capability,
>> but on a card that goes into a PCI Express.
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> oh, and it has to work with the zaptel drivers for linux.
>>
>> thanks all.
>>
>> sk
> i'm no expert on these cards nor of the drivers or even tried it myself,
> so please don't take my word on it.
>
> but... just happened to look for this last week, and i was under the
> assumption that PCI Express was backwards compatible with PCI
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express

yes, that's true ... in fact that's how the PCI-E cards are made by
most manufacturers ... they use the same
card and add the PCI-to-PCI-E chip that makes the card show to BIOS as
a PCI card

Martin

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> Randall
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