C H A P T E R  2

End-of-Support Products

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Products Not Supported in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment

Support for the following products has been discontinued. For more information, contact your support provider.

Sun4c Systems

The following sun4c architecture systems and servers based on these systems are not supported by this Solaris release:

• SPARCstation SLC

• SPARCstation ELC

• SPARCstation IPC

• SPARCstation IPX

• SPARCstation 1

• SPARCstation 1+

• SPARCstation 2

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Note - All hardware options (such as SCSI devices) and supported configurations that are dependent upon the sun4c architecture are no longer supported. A list of these options is included in the Supplement CD /Docs/HWPG directory in the EOS.html file.

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SPARCstation Voyager

SPARCstation Voyager systems are not supported by this Solaris release.

SPARC Xterminal 1

SPARC Xterminal 1 systems are not supported by this Solaris release.

ShowMe TV

ShowMe TV is not supported by this Solaris release.

PC File Viewer

PC file viewer is not supported by this Solaris release.

PC Launcher

PC Launcher is not supported by this Solaris release.

Solaris Maintenance Updates

The Solaris Maintenance Updates (MUs), a separate patch collection provided in conjunction with the Solaris Update Releases, are not available for this release, neither as a CD image nor as a download.

The preferred mechanism for updating a Solaris release--for example, to update from the Solaris 8 2/02 operating environment to the Solaris 8 2/04 operating environment--is to use the "upgrade" mechanism (see the Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide).

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Future End-of-Support Products

Support for the following products may be discontinued in future releases. For more information, contact your service provider.

sun4d Servers (32-bit only)

The following sun4d architecture servers may no longer be supported in a future release:

• SPARCserver 1000 systems

• SPARCcenter 2000 systems

Hardware options that are dependent on the sun4d architecture may no longer be supported in a future release.

Ethernet Quad Drivers qe and qec

Ethernet Quad drivers qe and qec may no longer be supported in a future release.

Alternate Pathing Multipath I/O

Alternate Pathing (AP) multipath I/O technology may no longer be supported in a future release. See Chapter 4 for further details.

SunHSI/S, SunFDDI/S, SunFDDI/P, le Drivers

SunHSI/S, le, SunFDDI/S, and SunFDDI/P drivers may no longer be supported in a future release.

Token Ring Network Drivers

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