Well, I've been e-mailing back and forth with a Dell techrep. (This is in
addition to the e-mail I sent to the sales guys, who are not in today).
The techrep basically said:

Your TDM2400P card is only PCI and not PCIe; and, is therfore not
compatible.

According to him, and he backed everything up (and I have no doubts about
how PCIe is working) with PCIe devices can share a single IRQ, because there
is so much more throughput.  However, obviously with PCI this does not work.


My question is, is it even possible for have a Digium VoIP card be PCIe, and
if so does anyone know of any plans to change the hardware over?    Right
now... I've pretty much voiced that I will not be purchasing any more Dell
servers to be our PBX systems.

On 2/10/07, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

We'll see what happens on Monday.  I e-mailed several people in Dell who
were involved in this sale and all assured me it would be fine and work.
Needless to say, I am not happy at all right now.

On 2/10/07, Andrew D Kirch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Matt wrote:
> >
> >     try booting with APIC and ACPI disabled?
> >
> >
> >
> > ARG.  You're going around in circles as bad as the Dell tech.   If the
> > IRQs are being shared and setup in BIOS.. no amount of booting with
> ACPI
> > disabled, or trying to set the IRQ within Linux is going to
> help.    At
> > this point, the BIOS is overriding and throwing the device onto that
> > IRQ.   If the device is physically being put onto an IRQ by the BIOS,
> > then no amount of software manipulation is going to change it.   If I
> am
> > wrong, someone please let me know.   As I understand it, ACPI will
> just
> > let you use the extended (>15) IRQs.. which is really just IRQ
> > sharing... the problem here is that the BIOS still has them setup as
> > shared IRQs.
> >
> >
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