[TriLUG] OT - well, I do want to save the file on Linux

[Joseph E. ODoherty]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 08:35:24AM -0400, William Sutton wrote:
> Got a question....do pci cards fit in pcix or pci32 slots?  it looks like 
> the cards available from digium are all pci and I'm rather short on the 
> old pci slots at the moment :}

They do in general, however there are some caveats.  PCI (32bit) cards come
in three form-factors 5v (notch in back), 3.3v (notch in front) and
universal (two notches.) PCI-X (64bit) cards can also come in these three
flavors, I think.

The problem is that the slots on your motherboard could be either:

(32bit and 5v) or (32bit and 3.3v) or (64bit and 5v) or (64bit and 3.3v)

If you can make sure that the PCI card you want comes in a universal 5/3.3v
form, it should work in any of those slots.

There are *excellent* pictures and diagrams here:
http://www.swyx.com/support/ssdb.html?kbid=kb2471

/joeyo
 
> William
> 
> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 21:29, John Turner wrote:
> > 
> > > Speaking of Asterisk. Does anyone have comments on Asterisk at Home?
> > > 
> > > http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net/
> > > 
> > > I was thinking of giving it a try before I rebuild my pbx with Fedora.
> > > 
> > > John
> > 
> > Very cool site!  If I were just starting out with Asterisk, I would
> > start here.
> > 
> > I have to say though that the learning curve on Asterisk is much smaller
> > than most OpenSource projects. For one thing the wiki is wicked good.
> > The config files are also logically named and very well documented. I
> > had my first trunks up and running and tested within about six hours of
> > installing Asterisk the first time.
> > 
> > BTW: my first install was on a heavily loaded 1GHz box with a slow IDE
> > drive and about 512Mb of RAM. Asterisk ran fairly well; though I had
> > some skipping problems with announcements and voicemail.  Once I
> > shutdown things like Mailscanner, SquidGuard, and Mailman those problems
> > were minimal.  You don't need much for a home system.
> > 
> > Good Luck - Jon
> > 

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