R50 MCA

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I have a R50 running on AIX 4.3.3.
At the end of the year 4.3.3 will be out of support, and I know that
the latest AIX 5 will not support MCA bus machines.

However correct me if I am wrong I still can run AIX 5.1 and still be
supported ?
Also does anyone know the product life cycle of AIX 5.1, when will it
be no longer supported ?

Regards

[Steve Nottingham]

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> I have a R50 running on AIX 4.3.3.
> At the end of the year 4.3.3 will be out of support, and I know that
> the latest AIX 5 will not support MCA bus machines.
>
> However correct me if I am wrong I still can run AIX 5.1 and still be
> supported ?
> Also does anyone know the product life cycle of AIX 5.1, when will it
> be no longer supported ?
>
> Regards

5.1 will run on a MCA based machine and is supported (I believe) until
end of 2006. IBM recently extended the end of service date, but I
can't find the announcement letter.

Steve

[Dave Miller]

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> [email]dist-lists@e-securenetworks.net[/email] (dist-lists) wrote in message

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> > I have a R50 running on AIX 4.3.3.
> > At the end of the year 4.3.3 will be out of support, and I know that
> > the latest AIX 5 will not support MCA bus machines.
> >
> > However correct me if I am wrong I still can run AIX 5.1 and still be
> > supported ?
> > Also does anyone know the product life cycle of AIX 5.1, when will it
> > be no longer supported ?
> >
> > Regards

>
> 5.1 will run on a MCA based machine and is supported (I believe) until
> end of 2006. IBM recently extended the end of service date, but I
> can't find the announcement letter.
>
> Steve

FWIW....... here's a link to an announcement that suggests 12/31/2005 for
AIX 5.1......and 7/31/2007 for AIX 5.2

[url]http://www-3.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/649/ENUSA03-0825/ENUSA03-0825.PDF[/url]

If this link should fail, you should find it by searching at IBM's web site
for Announcement Letter A03-0825

Dave