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Solaris[tm] 9 Operating Environment 8/03
End of Life Hardware
Support for the following products has been discontinued. For
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 It has been replaced by the newer, more
scalable technologies of 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 use these newer technologies
for I/O multipath control.
Token Ring Network Drivers
SBus Token Ring and PCI bus Token Ring network drivers are no
longer supported in this release.
PC File Viewer
PC file viewer is no longer supported in this release.
Similar functionality in viewing PC files is now available using
the Sun StarOffice[tm] 6.0 Office Productivity Suite. StarOffice
can read and write more than 100 different file formats used by
major desktop applications, including Microsoft Office, Lotus,
WordPerfect, WordStar, FrameMaker, AutoCAD, Photoshop, and
more.
For more information, go to:
http://www.sun.com/staroffice
SunFDDI and SunHSI/S Drivers
FDDI/S, FDDI/P, and SunHSI/S[tm] drivers are no longer supported in
this release.
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.ShowMe TV
ShowMe TV[tm] may no longer be supported in a future release.
le Drivers
le network drivers may no longer be supported in a future release.
SPC Driver
The SPC SBus interface card driver may no longer be supported in a
future release. The SPC card is a serial parallel controller (SBus,
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[tm] LX / LX+
- SPARCstation 4
- SPARCstation 5
- SPARCstation 10
- SPARCstation 20
Tape Devices
The following tape devices might not be supported in a future
release of the Solaris operating environment:
- Sun StorEdge[tm] DLT4700 Tape Autoloader
- Sun StorEdge L140 Tape Library
- Sun StorEdge L280 Tape Autoloader
- Sun StorEdge L400 Tape Library
- Sun StorEdge L1800 Tape Library
- Sun StorEdge L11000 Tape Library
Storage Interfaces
The following interfaces for device driver properties might not be
supported in a future release of the Solaris operating environment:
- fast-writes (pln driver property)
- priority-reserve (pln driver property)
The following device drivers might not be supported in a future
release of the Solaris operating environment:
- /kernel/drv/pln
- /kernel/drv/pln.conf
- /kernel/drv/sparcv9/pln
- /kernel/drv/soc
- /kernel/drv/sparcv9/soc
The /usr/sbin/ssaadm utility might not be supported in a future
release of the Solaris operating environment.
Sun StorEdge A3000, Sun StorEdge A3500, and Sun StorEdge
A3500FC Systems
Software support for the following storage devices might not be
provided in a future release of the Solaris operating environment:
- Sun StorEdgetrademark A3000 System
- Sun StorEdge A3500 System
- Sun StorEdge A3500FC System
Solaris Maintenance Updates
The separate patch collections provided in conjunction with the
Solaris Update Releases, the Solaris Maintenance Updates (MUs),
might not be made available at future releases.
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