End of Life Hardware
Solaris[tm] 9 - Products Not Supported in the Solaris 9
Operating Environment
Support for the following products has been discontinued. For more
US Customers may price and buy this part from the online Sun Store. Customers outside of the US, please contact your local Sun sales office for help.
sun4d Servers
The following sun4d architecture servers are no longer included in
this release:
SPARCserver[tm] 1000 systems
SPARCcenter[tm] 2000 systems
Hardware options that are dependent on the sun4d architecture are
no longer included in this release.
Ethernet Quad Drivers qe and qec
Ethernet Quad drivers qe and qec are no longer
included in this release.
Alternate Pathing Multipath I/O
Alternate Pathing (AP) multipath I/O technology is no longer
included in this release. It has been retired in favor of the
newer, more scalable technologies presented by MPxIO and IPMP.
These modern technologies present better overall multipath
solutions, with refined, user-friendly interfaces that are well
integrated with Solaris. IPMP also provides true automatic
switching for networks upon error detection.
If you used AP in previous releases of Solaris for I/O multipath
capabilities, you are encouraged to utilize these newer
technologies for I/O multipath control.
Future End-of-Support Products
Support for the following products may be discontinued in future
US Customers may price and buy this part from the online Sun Store. Customers outside of the US, please contact your local Sun sales office for help.
PC File Viewer
PC File Viewer may no longer be supported in a future release.
ShowMe TV
ShowMe TV may no longer be supported in a future release.
FDDI, HSI/S, le, and Token Ring Drivers
FDDI/S, FDDI/P, HSI/S, le, SBus Token Ring, and PCI bus
Token Ring network drivers may no longer be supported in a future
release.
SPC Driver
The SPC S-Bus interface card driver may no longer be supported in a
future release. The SPC card is a Serial Parallel Controller
(S-Bus, 8-port serial, 1 parallel).
Sun4m Platform Group
The sun4m platform group may no longer be supported in a future
release. This would affect the following platforms:
SPARCclassic
SPARCstation LX / LX+
SPARCstation 4
SPARCstation 5
SPARCstation 10
SPARCstation 20
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