I have a Digium TDM400P card that appears to have died. The first noted symptoms were that dahdi would fail to reload on boot. On closer inspection, the card looks totally dead; no lights on at all. I have tried moving it to a different PCI slot, and removing the other PCI card (a 3com 10/100 NIC) completely. I have not tried removing the PCI-E graphics card, of course, because I can't boot the system without it, but that is unlikely to be fruitful anyway. So the questions are: first, what is the expected lifetime of one of these cards? It just passed its 5th birthday. Is that as long as it could be expected to last? Second, since the parts of this card are very expensive, I am wondering if these symptoms likely mean that the main board of the card is dead, but the FXS and FXO modules might still be good. In that case, I could just get a new main card and move the modules to the new main card. The problem is that I can't find any TDM400P cards anywhere, all I can find are TDM410P's. Will the modules I have (assuming they are still good) work with a TDM410P? Last question: the TDM410 card is available in PCI and PCIx1 forms. I do have a free PCIx1 slot. Is there any advantage in one over the other? Thanks, --Greg
On 05/06/2012 11:42 AM, Greg Woods wrote:> Second, since the parts of this card are very expensive, I am wondering > if these symptoms likely mean that the main board of the card is dead, > but the FXS and FXO modules might still be good. In that case, I could > just get a new main card and move the modules to the new main card. The > problem is that I can't find any TDM400P cards anywhere, all I can find > are TDM410P's. Will the modules I have (assuming they are still good) > work with a TDM410P?Yes, the module are compatible with a TDM410P, or any other Digium card supporting analog modules except the TDM2400P. -- Kevin P. Fleming Digium, Inc. | Director of Software Technologies Jabber: kfleming at digium.com | SIP: kpfleming at digium.com | Skype: kpfleming 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:> I have a Digium TDM400P card that appears to have died. The first noted > symptoms were that dahdi would fail to reload on boot. On closer > inspection, the card looks totally dead; no lights on at all. I have > tried moving it to a different PCI slot, and removing the other PCI card > (a 3com 10/100 NIC) completely. ?I have not tried removing the PCI-E > graphics card, of course, because I can't boot the system without it, > but that is unlikely to be fruitful anyway. > > So the questions are: first, what is the expected lifetime of one of > these cards? It just passed its 5th birthday. Is that as long as it > could be expected to last? > > Second, since the parts of this card are very expensive, I am wondering > if these symptoms likely mean that the main board of the card is dead, > but the FXS and FXO modules might still be good. In that case, I could > just get a new main card and move the modules to the new main card. The > problem is that I can't find any TDM400P cards anywhere, all I can find > are TDM410P's. Will the modules I have (assuming they are still good) > work with a TDM410P? > > Last question: the TDM410 card is available in PCI and PCIx1 forms. I do > have a free PCIx1 slot. Is there any advantage in one over the other? > > Thanks, > --GregSounds like you did a kernel update and did not rebuild DAHDI. I have never witnessed a failed Tormenta or Digium card. I have read about them. -- ~ Andrew "lathama" Latham lathama at gmail.com http://lathama.net ~
On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 10:42:16AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote:> I have a Digium TDM400P card that appears to have died. The first noted > symptoms were that dahdi would fail to reload on boot. On closer > inspection, the card looks totally dead; no lights on at all.Does the device show up in lspci? -- Russ Meyerriecks Digium, Inc. | Brogrammer 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA direct: +1 256-428-6025 Check us out at: www.digium.com & www.asterisk.org
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 10:26 -0500, Russ Meyerriecks wrote:> On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 10:42:16AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > I have a Digium TDM400P card that appears to have died. The first noted > > symptoms were that dahdi would fail to reload on boot. On closer > > inspection, the card looks totally dead; no lights on at all. > > Does the device show up in lspci?I just checked, and as expected, it does not show up with lspci (all of the other PCI devices do). --Greg