Sorry, The Soekris Rackmount supply is 12V x 5.0A -- Chris
On Feb 17, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Andrew Atrens wrote: > 5A should be plenty I'd think .. but I guess it also depends on the voltage .. > > A few years ago I experienced issues with an ALIX board and a high power > Ubiquiti/Atheros-based mini-PCI card .. if memory serves I think it was an > XR-2 .. in that case though the miniPCI card would sort of brown out and that > could lock up the PCI bus leading to a kernel crash or watchdog reset. In > that situation the issue was internal to the PUPS on the ALiX board - a known > limitation wrt how how much power could be supplied to the miniPCI slot. > > > > On 2015-02-17 2:02 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 01:37:51PM -0500, Andrew Atrens wrote: >>> Hi Nix, >>> >>> It's almost certainly a power issue as power draw for the lan card will not >>> be a static thing - ie will increase when transmitting packets vs idle. >>> >> That's an intersting theory. I also run an external nic in the PCI >> slot of a Net5501-60. In my case the OS is OpenBSD 5.5 and the nic >> card is an Intel dual Gigabit PCI-X unit. I also experience reboots of >> this configuration under high packet flows. In my case though my >> machine is in the Net5501 rack mount case with the 5.0A power supply. >> >> I will arrange to test by swapping to a newer 5501 rack mount case and >> retesting. >> >> Thanks >> >> -- Chris > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
