asterisk users - Sep 2005 - Will Digium Wildard work with PCI-Xor PCI Express

I had trouble with a TE110P card in a Supermicro mobo - P8SCT.  The PRI
line kept dropping calls when the card was in a standard PCI slot.  In
the end the only way to fix it was to install the card in the PCI-X
slot.

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From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matt Roth
Sent: 22 September 2005 21:31
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Will Digium Wildard work with PCI-Xor PCI
Express

Just correcting myself.  The 3 PCI-X slots are one 64-bit 133 MHz and
two 64-bit 100 MHz.

Matt

Matt Roth wrote:
> Don't bank on it.  We were going to use a Wildcard as a timing source 
> on our Dell PowerEdge 6850 and the BIOS didn't see it.  Depending on 
> the PCI-X slot I installed it in, sometimes the box wouldn't even 
> boot.  For perspective the 6850 has 4 PCI-e slots, and 3 PCI-X slots 
> (one 64-bit 133 MHz, two 32-bit 100 MHz).
>
> I believe the timing is only needed for music on hold, IAX trunking, 
> and MeetMe conferencing.  We're not doing trunking or conferencing 
> (for now) so we're going with ztdummy.  If the timing isn't perfect
> only our music on hold will suffer, which is no big deal.  If we run 
> into other problems, we might try popping our quad-span card in there 
> just to see if it works.
>
> Keep in mind that Digium no longer produces Wildcards.  I'm not sure 
> why they don't work with our 6850 and the techs at Dell didn't know
> either.  Maybe they are not 100% PCI compliant.
>
> Matthew Roth
> InterMedia Marketing Solutions
> Software Engineer and Systems Developer
>
> Kevin Bockman wrote:
>
>> Chuck Bunn wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know if the Digium Wildcard will work on a PCI Express 
>>> or PCI-X motherboard. Specifically I am looking at the Dell 850 1U 
>>> rack server for use with Asterisk.
>>
>>
>>
>> They will work in PCI-X of course  but not PCI Express.  They are 
>> totally different.
>>
>> You will need the 3.3v cards.
>>
>>
>> Kevin
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