Re: Power Mac OS

From: David L Haviland (David.L.Haviland@uth.tmc.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 10 2000 - 12:25:33 EST


----- Original Message -----
From: Len Brown <lbrown@mmri.mater.org.au>
Date: Thursday, June 8, 2000 10:36 pm
Subject: Power Mac OS

>
> Dear All
>
> An old topic but after searching the archives I still don't have
> an answer.
>
> We are running our Vantage on a Power Mac 7300/200 with OS 7.6.1 and
> CellQuest 3.1. I would like to upgrade the OS to 8.6 but BD says
> that max'
> is OS 7.6 and they do not support the system on higher OS. I run
> the same
> version of CellQuest on our Calibur on a G3 with OS 8.6, no
> problems. We
> require OS 8.6 to allow data transfer to our Windows NT server and
> possiblyto run security software which will not run on OS 7.6.
>
> Does anybody run their Vantage 7300/200 on OS 8.6 with CellQuest 3.1?

Hi:

Yes and no... I'm currently running a 7600/200 with OS 8.1 with CQ 3.2.1
on both a Calibur and Vantage.  I have not had one problem with either
system.  I too called BD tech support and chatted with  a very helpful
lady that told me the BD couldn't support that specific set-up as they
themselves haven't tried it.  However, she told me the OS upgrade with
CQ 3.2.1 was working "in their hands" on platforms above and below my
configuration.  She did not anticipate any problems but of course, could
not render BD's offical OK to upgrade my systems.

Bottom line:  Try it.  If it doesn't fly, revert to a previous version.

Hope this helps,
David



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