In order to streamline the development and test of future
MPE/iX releases, the PBA-IB HP-IB Device Adapter (A1747A) and old
CIB I/O based HP 3000 Servers will not work with MPE/iX Release
6.5 and later releases.
The PBA-IB HP-IB Device Adapter was discontinued in May 1999
and has an end of support date of November 1, 2001. The following
old CIB I/O (also known as CIO) based HP 3000 Servers will have
completed their end-of-support well before November 1, 2001:
the 925/935/949 family
the 920/922/932/948/958
the 950/955/960/980 family
HP-IB and the above HP 3000 Servers will continue to be supported
through their end-of-support date on MPE/iX Release 5.5 (which has
a projected end-of-support date of November 1, 2000) and Release
6.0 (which has a projected end-of-support of November 1, 2001).
NOTE: If you are running MPE/iX on one of these older systems,
or on a system with any of these older cards or peripherals, you
must not update that system to Release 6.5.
Customers wishing to replace their HP-IB I/O cards and peripherals
should consider SCSI or LAN connected peripherals. Customers wishing
to replace the above older HP 3000 Servers as they complete their
support life should consider the 9x8 or 9x9KS HP 3000 Servers.
Introducing MPE/iX 6.5 Release
Discontinuance of High Availability Fiber Link Disk Drives
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