asterisk users - Mar 2004 - Hot plug PCI?

The quick question: Do the digium drivers for the Digium Wildcard TE410P 
(4 port T1/E1/PRI 3.3v card) , the T100P (single port T1),  and the 
TDM400P support hot plug PCI?  I am also noting that while the TDM400P 
doesn't state the voltage requirements, it looks like a 5v card.  I hope 
that I am wrong on this.

What type of T1 channel bank would people recoment for ISDN (for video 
equipment) and FXS ports?

I am looking at implementing an Asterisk PBX at my office in June.  We 
are currently recieving PBX services as part of an office sublease and 
will purchase a replacement when we move in June.

There is a lot of resistance to using any PBX that isn't from a major 
vendor with a track record in the company management.  I am going out on 
a limb for * as the features and capabilities as well as the cost seem 
like exactly what we want and need.  If I go the Asterisk route it will 
be with a serious server, redunant power supplies, raid, etc...  I will 
have a much better chance at getting aproval for this if there is hot 
plug support to give this project all of the features found in 
comporable products from Nortel and Avaya.

Thank you,
Charlie Hedlin

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:27:28AM -0600, Charlie Hedlin
wrote:
> The quick question: Do the digium drivers for the Digium Wildcard TE410P 
> (4 port T1/E1/PRI 3.3v card) , the T100P (single port T1),  and the 
> TDM400P support hot plug PCI?  I am also noting that while the TDM400P 
> doesn't state the voltage requirements, it looks like a 5v card.  I
hope
> that I am wrong on this.
> 
Hotplug PCI has two sides of things :
- drivers and software must support hot plugging : there is support in
  the Linux kernel for that. Digium drivers don't support that yet,
  but this is not very hard to do.
- hardware : you must have hotplug capable boards and bus. I believe
  the only option there is CompactPCI, and of course cPCI boards and
  chassis are very different from your day-to-day PCI stuff. Of course
  Digium boards, as well as any other standard PCI board does not
  fit.
  cPCI boards and chassis are considerably more expensive than their
  standard counterparts, if they exist at all.

You can't just hot (un)plug a standard PCI board : the bus is not
meant for this, you have most chances of destroying your board and/or
your bus.

--
Nicolas Bougues
Axialys Interactive