I am having to abandon asterisk after having used it for 2.5 years due to this problem. Every couple of days (sometimes more often, sometimes less), the machine will lock up because the TDM board or the Dahdi driver goes south. /var/log/messages starts filling up with repeated messages:
kernel: TDM PCI Master abort The card I have is: *CLI> dahdi show status Description Alarms IRQ bpviol CRC4 Wildcard TDM400P REV I Board 5 OK 0 0 0 I asked about this once before and I am asking again in desperation, as I have had to shut off my asterisk server, take all the VOIP phones out of service, and go back to the bad old days of a single cordless phone base with a couple of handsets and a crappy old WalMart answering machine. This sucks. Last time I asked, the most helpful answer I got was privately, saying that either my card is bad, or I might need a different motherboard (but there is no way I know of to know which motherboards would work and which would not; the last thing I would want is to go through the expense and major hassle of swapping motherboards only to find out that the problem is not fixed). The only decent diagnostic I have is that if I catch it soon enough, before the system totally locks up, then stopping asterisk, restarting dahdi, and starting asterisk gets things working again (until the next incident). Also, I can go into asterisk -r and do "dahdi show status" and the card doesn't have any alarms; the output is the same as above, even as the PCI Master abort messages are spewing into the syslog. If my Wildcard TDM board is bad, is there anything I can do about it, or am I just S.O.L. after this much time? The blasted card costs as much as a new machine; either way I can't afford it right now. I don't want to abandon asterisk as it has so many nice features, but I am running low on alternatives at the moment. --Greg _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
