From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 06:17:44 EST
It's been discussed on here in the past.
I've been aware that it was going to happen for a few years. i.e. Some
unspecified AIX5l release would not support older machines, although I'd
only heard specific mention of MCA hardware.
Simon Green
Philip Morris ITSC Europe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Kissel [mailto:RKissel@RATIONAL.COM]
> Sent: 12 November 2002 18:26
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: AIX 5.2 doesn't support "old" machines?
>
>
> We just started installing AIX 5.2 on our machines and found
> that "old"
> (i.e. non-chrp) hardware is no longer supported (this is documented in
> the release notes, but I don't remember hearing about it before the
> release). These are machines like 43p Model 140 (7043-140) that we
> bought less than 2 years ago. IBM says we're the only
> customer who has
> complained about this, but I find that hard to believe. I wonder if
> anyone else has found this to be a problem, found a
> work-around, and/or
> complained to IBM?
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