asterisk users - Jul 2007 - Problems using TE412P and TDM400B in a IBM x3650

Another day, another apparant unexplained hardware incompatibility.

I have a TE412P and a TDM400B living quite happily in a whitebox using an
Intel motherboard:

http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/se7230nh1-e/index.htm

I tried to move to an IBM x3650 system.  It uses a slightly newer chipset,
but apparantly it's in the same family.  The SE-7230 board has been
EOL'd
and the suggested replacement uses the same chipset as the x3650.  I had to
get a PCI-X riser cage to put the cards into, as the server only supports
PCIe as shipped.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/rack/x3650/specs.html

When I just have the TE412P in the server, no problems.  If I put both the
TE412P and the TDM400B in, I get no end of errors.  When I put the TE412P in
the first PCI-X slot and the TDM400B in the second, then none of my PRI
channels will get out of red alarm - they go red as soon as I load zaptel,
and stay there through ztcfg, starting asterisk, restarting zaptel via the
Asterisk CLI, etc.

If I swap the cards, then only one of the ports (#4) stays in red alarm,
while the other 3 seem to be fine.

I checked /proc/interrupts, and both cards were getting their own interrupt
(forgot to save the output unfortunately, and I'm back on the original
hardware right now).

Has anyone run this type of hardware combo successfully, or had similar
problems on other hardware that they got around?

Thanks

-- 
j.
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James FitzGibbon wrote:
> Another day, another apparant unexplained hardware incompatibility.
> 
> I have a TE412P and a TDM400B living quite happily in a whitebox using an
> Intel motherboard:
> 
> http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/se7230nh1-e/index.htm
> 
> I tried to move to an IBM x3650 system.  It uses a slightly newer chipset,
> but apparantly it's in the same family.  The SE-7230 board has been
EOL'd
> and the suggested replacement uses the same chipset as the x3650.  I had to
> get a PCI-X riser cage to put the cards into, as the server only supports
> PCIe as shipped.
> 
> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/rack/x3650/specs.html
> 
> When I just have the TE412P in the server, no problems.  If I put both the
> TE412P and the TDM400B in, I get no end of errors.  When I put the TE412P
in
> the first PCI-X slot and the TDM400B in the second, then none of my PRI
> channels will get out of red alarm - they go red as soon as I load zaptel,
> and stay there through ztcfg, starting asterisk, restarting zaptel via the
> Asterisk CLI, etc.
> 
> If I swap the cards, then only one of the ports (#4) stays in red alarm,
> while the other 3 seem to be fine.
> 
> I checked /proc/interrupts, and both cards were getting their own interrupt
> (forgot to save the output unfortunately, and I'm back on the original
> hardware right now).
> 
> Has anyone run this type of hardware combo successfully, or had similar
> problems on other hardware that they got around?
Can you make sure Digium tech support hears about this, so that it can 
be addressed?

Thanks,

-- 
Matthew Fredrickson
Software/Firmware Engineer
Digium, Inc.