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X100P FXO card fax modem

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Got my asterisk X100P but yet to test it.

The minute i got it i opened the package to see what is inside, and the main motorola chip had it’s details hidden with a sticker that reads “Warantee void if removed”, under that sticker was the Motorola
62802-51
QZ0006
E1G32

And 2 more chps from Silicon Laboratories that read
THEN THE 2 Silicon Laboratories chips
Si3014-KS
0409CACABD

AND THE SLIGHTLY SHORTER ONE
Si3021-KS
0346CACACT

This information is already known, this is the card setup that Digium’s founder used to develop asterisk, so why mask it, it is not even your intellectual property !, for your convinced i have posted a photo of the X100P FXO chips etc here

Anyway, this calls for me to give this card a go under asterisk and let you guys know what happenes and all the details about quality etc…

Once i experiment with this card a bit, i will come here and update the information in this post !

Until then, stay tuned

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BELKIN SATA 2 EXPRESSCARD F5U239

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

BELKIN SATA 2 EXPRESSCARD F5U239 with the SILICON IMAGE SIL3132 card

So, it may be the fastest to go with your mybook with esata, it is fast, but has many shortcomings.

To begin with, you can not boot your laptop from this card, you can if you install a software boot loader but the hardware is not bootable.

This card worked fine with a sata port multiplier by silicon image, unlike many other sata controllers.

2 LEDs are there showing disk activity, but remember that although they say it gives you a 3MBit connection to the hard drive, the maximum of the connection is much less having the expresscard bus as a bottelneck, even worse, both hard drives will have to share that expresscard bus !

All in all i am happy with the product if it were not for the boot issue.

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