asterisk users - Aug 2007 - Dell SC1430 + Digium TE110P = Digital Noise in PRI

Hi list,

I have a terrible noise issue with Dell SC1430 + Digium TE110P. The 
digium card is not sharing interrupts with any other device, as I saw in 
Dell's BIOS and also with "lspci -vb" command.

After changing coax wire, UTP, balum, digium card ... I have found that 
the problem is in Dell box, so now I'm running the same Asterisk config 
in other server with the same Digium card and there is no noise in PRI.

Any advice to solve the problem with Dell box?

Regards,

Marc

Marc Patino G?mez wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a terrible noise issue with Dell SC1430 + Digium TE110P. The 
> digium card is not sharing interrupts with any other device, as I saw in 
> Dell's BIOS and also with "lspci -vb" command.
>
> After changing coax wire, UTP, balum, digium card ... I have found that 
> the problem is in Dell box, so now I'm running the same Asterisk config
> in other server with the same Digium card and there is no noise in PRI.
>
> Any advice to solve the problem with Dell box?
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc
>
>   
Try a Sangoma card?

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

>>> On 8/28/2007 at 9:30 AM, John Novack <jnovack at
stromberg-carlson.org>
wrote:
> 
> Marc Patino G?mez wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Thanks for your advice, I will order a Sangoma card and test the
box. A 
>> part from this, you know any other point to recomend Sangoma cards 
>> versus Digium cards?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Marc
>>   
> 5 year warranty, to name one.
> 
> Sangoma says their cards will work in ALL modern machines.
> If they can't make it work ( never seen that ) they will refund.
> If you have problems, and you give them SSH, they will fix it.
> 
> John Novack
> 
Digium has done this, for me, as well.  

However, in either case, I have reservations about letting others wack
away at my machines, especially if one cannot see what they are doing. 
No so much not trusting them, but not learning a thing along the way.

When I voiced that concern to the Digium techs, they set up a thing
called "screen" (I think it was) to allow me to see and or interact
with
their session.

joe a.

Marc Patino G?mez wrote:
> I have a terrible noise issue with Dell SC1430 + Digium TE110P. The 
> digium card is not sharing interrupts with any other device, as I saw in 
> Dell's BIOS and also with "lspci -vb" command.
> 
> After changing coax wire, UTP, balum, digium card ... I have found that 
> the problem is in Dell box, so now I'm running the same Asterisk config
> in other server with the same Digium card and there is no noise in PRI.
> 
> Any advice to solve the problem with Dell box?
Did you ever contact Digium technical support to give them a chance to fix your
problem?  It is really disappointing to see people go with another vendor
without even giving us a chance to resolve your issue.

If the TE110P will not work out for you, Digium will trade it for a TE120P.  The
120 is the replacement for the 110 which uses a far superior PCI interface
developed at Digium instead of the TigerJet, which has been the cause of
compatability issues in the past.  Very soon, the TigerJet part will no longer
be in use in any of the Digium cards.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.

In article <46D5CDFE.7010800 at digium.com>,
Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com> wrote:
> If the TE110P will not work out for you, Digium will trade it for a TE120P.
The
> 120 is the replacement for the 110 which uses a far superior PCI interface
> developed at Digium instead of the TigerJet, which has been the cause of
> compatability issues in the past.  Very soon, the TigerJet part will no
longer
> be in use in any of the Digium cards.
Will there be non-TigerJet TE2xx and TE4xx cards that are regular PCI
and not PCI Express?

Cheers
Tony
-- 
Tony Mountifield
Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk
Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org

Tony Mountifield wrote:
> Will there be non-TigerJet TE2xx and TE4xx cards that are regular PCI
> and not PCI Express?
The dual span and quad span cards never used a TigerJet PCI interface.  The only
cards that ever did use it are the TDM400P, T100P, E100P, and TE110P.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Software Engineer
Digium, Inc.

In article <46D5E21C.3080409 at digium.com>,
Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com> wrote:
> Tony Mountifield wrote:
> > Will there be non-TigerJet TE2xx and TE4xx cards that are regular PCI
> > and not PCI Express?
> 
> The dual span and quad span cards never used a TigerJet PCI interface.  The
only
> cards that ever did use it are the TDM400P, T100P, E100P, and TE110P.
Ah, ok. Cool. Thanks!

Been using the TE110P a lot recently and forgot that the quad cards call
themselves Xilinx devices.

Tony
-- 
Tony Mountifield
Work: tony at softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk
Play: tony at mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org

<snip>
Digium has done this, for me, as well.

However, in either case, I have reservations about letting others wack
away at my machines, especially if one cannot see what they are doing.
No so much not trusting them, but not learning a thing along the way.

When I voiced that concern to the Digium techs, they set up a thing
called "screen" (I think it was) to allow me to see and or interact
with
their session.

joe a.
</snip>




history > history.txt
The above line will out put the history on the box to.... you guessed it 
history.txt and then you can see all that they did

Tony Mountifield wrote:
> In article <46D5CDFE.7010800 at digium.com>,
> Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com> wrote:
>> If the TE110P will not work out for you, Digium will trade it for a
TE120P.  The
>> 120 is the replacement for the 110 which uses a far superior PCI
interface
>> developed at Digium instead of the TigerJet, which has been the cause
of
>> compatability issues in the past.  Very soon, the TigerJet part will no
longer
>> be in use in any of the Digium cards.
> 
> Will there be non-TigerJet TE2xx and TE4xx cards that are regular PCI
> and not PCI Express?
Those cards have never had a TigerJet on them.  They have an FPGA on 
them, which makes it easier to make changes when there are PCI 
compatibility problems.

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

The Digium cards are known to steal IRQ's.

 

The Sangoma cards do not.

 

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