Hi, i recently tried to install an * server with a hotplug pci board. (An Intel SPKA4) with a Digium TE410P But the Chassis/PCI-Bus wasn't able to detect the card. A Hot plug pci bus normally gives power to all slots on bootup and then determines which slots are in use. Then it disables the power on the unused slots. But in my case the bus always disabled the power on the slot with the digium card in it too. So i was not able to get this to work! We switched to a te405p and got it working in the non-hotplug slot. But with Hotplug PCI -> No chance... Digium suggested to turn off multi processing in the hardware. But that's not a real solution and wasn't possible as well on this mainboard.
Regards Fabian Stelzer Gigacodes GmbH -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Steve Underwood Gesendet: Mittwoch, 31. M�rz 2004 16:42 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Hot plug PCI? Scott Laird wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2004, at 12:01 AM, Nicolas Bougues wrote: > >> - hardware : you must have hotplug capable boards and bus. I believe >> the only option there is CompactPCI, and of course cPCI boards and >> chassis are very different from your day-to-day PCI stuff. Of course >> Digium boards, as well as any other standard PCI board does not >> fit. >> cPCI boards and chassis are considerably more expensive than their >> standard counterparts, if they exist at all. >> >> You can't just hot (un)plug a standard PCI board : the bus is not >> meant for this, you have most chances of destroying your board and/or >> your bus. > > > You can buy systems with hot-plugable standard PCI slots. Many > higher-end servers have included the ability for years. > > Example: > http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/proliantml530/index.html > > If you read down far enough, it mentions that the PCI-X slots are > hot-pluggable. Linux has kernel support for the HP/COMPAQ/IBM > hot-plug chips, but I'm pretty sure that you still need a bit of > driver support. I haven't tried with a recent Compaq, but a couple of years ago the hot plug slots were a joke. It was nearly impossible to swap a card without disturbing the others in the chassis, and crashing the server. The cards did not slide out cleanly; ribbon cables for RAID drives ran across the top of the hot plug slots; etc. So, watch out - you need slots which are hot plug in deed as well as in word :-) Regards, Steve _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
