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 e3000 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 e3000 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 e3000 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 or later.
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 e3000 Servers as they complete their
support life should consider the A-Class or N-Class HP e3000 Servers.
HP Stage/iX
Discontinuance of High Availability Fiber Link Disk Drives
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