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    Quantum Corporation ▪ 141 Innovation Drive, Irvine, CA 92617 ▪ 1-800-677 -62 68 ▪ www .quantum.com © 2008 Quantum ST00531 December, 2008 StorNext 3.5 File System and Storage Manager Supported Operating Systems and Platforms Operating System Kernel or Release Platform MDC Server File System SAN Client Distributed LAN Server File System LAN Cl[...]

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    Quantum Corporation ▪ 141 Innovation Drive, Irvine, CA 92617 ▪ 1-800-677 -62 68 ▪ www .quantum.com © 2008 Quantum ST00531 December, 2008 StorNext 3.5 Discontinued Support By OS Platform Operating System Platform(s) StorNext Services No Longer Suppor ted SGI IRIX 64-bit MIPS Support discontinued for all services HP-UX PA-RISC  PA-RISC supp[...]

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    Quantum Corporation ▪ 141 Innovation Drive, Irvine, CA 92617 ▪ 1-800-677 -62 68 ▪ www .quantum.com © 2008 Quantum ST00531 December, 2008 StorNext 3.5 Supported Libraries and Tape Drives Vendor Libraries Drive Types Minimum Library Firmware Levels Notes Scalar i500 IBM LTO-1, IBM LTO-2, IBM LTO-3, IBM LTO-4 IBM LTO-3 WORM, IBM LTO-4 WORM, HP-[...]

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    Quantum Corporation ▪ 141 Innovation Drive, Irvine, CA 92617 ▪ 1-800-677 -62 68 ▪ www .quantum.com © 2008 Quantum ST00531 December, 2008 StorNext 3.5 Supported Libraries and Tape Drives (Continued) Vendor Libraries Drive Types Minimum Library Firmware Levels Notes Qualstar XLS IBM LTO-4 0880 Sony Petasite IBM LTO-4 drive (T1600) 6.30 ACSLS :[...]

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    Quantum Corporation ▪ 141 Innovation Drive, Irvine, CA 92617 ▪ 1-800-677 -62 68 ▪ www .quantum.com © 2008 Quantum ST00531 December, 2008 StorNext 3.5 Minimum Firmware Levels for Drives Drive Type Minimum Drive Firmware Level Notes IBM LTO-1 25D4 Includes ULT3580 -T D1 and Ultrium-TD 1 IBM LTO-2 3AY4 ULT3580-TD2 and Ultrium -TD2 IBM LTO-3 IBM[...]