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Firmware Summary Table B-4 E/OS versus E/OSn and E/OSi - System-Related Differences (Continued) Feature E/OS 7.0 E/OSn 6.0 E/OSi 4.6 Nondisruptive hot code activation (HotCAT) Upgrade nondisruptive to Fibre Channel traffic for single and dual CTP card directors and for fabric switches. Upgrade does not require director CTP card switchover. E/OS allows upgrade or downgrade by greater than one functional release. Director must be set offline to upgrade a single CTP card. Upgrade nondisruptive to Fibre Channel traffic for dual CTP card but requires card switchover. New firmware image provided for all CTP cards and eight LIMs. E/OSn allows upgrade or downgrade by only one functional release. Nondisruptive hot code activation not applicable. Initial microcode load IML functionality is supported. IML functionality not available. IML functionality not available. (IML) functionality Non-redundant CTP Concurrent CTP card upgrade card upgrade (directors supported. only) CTP card upgrade disruptive to CTP card upgrade not Fibre Channel traffic and applicable. requires director to be set offline. Switching logic card function (directors) Optical paddles (directors) Power supplies One active serial crossbar assembly (SBAR) and one standby SBAR supported. Four load-sharing active switching module (SWM) cards supported, eliminating the need for standby modules. Switching logic card function not applicable. Optical paddles not applicable. Port cards provide equivalent functionality. Concurrently replaceable optical paddles are supported, but Fibre Channel traffic is disrupted to all ports on the paddle. Optical paddles not applicable. Two power modules (or power supplies) with two power cords. The Sphereon 4300 Switch has one power supply and one power cord. Four power modules with two power cords. Two power supplies with two power cords. Power cords connect to the front panel of the Eclipse 1620 SAN Router and to the back of the Eclipse 2640 SAN Router. Power-on diagnostic step (P-step) codes Power-on-hour (POH) updates 10.2000 Gbps port transmission speed support Numeric format. Text-based format. Text-based format. POH vital product data (VPD) updated to field-replaceable unit (FRU) read-only memory (ROM) every hour. POH VPD updated to CTP card memory every hour then downloaded to FRU ROM upon FRU failure. Power-on-hour updates not applicable. 10.2000 Gbps port operation not 10.2000 Gbps port operation available. supported. 10.2000 Gbps port operation not available. B-2 McDATA Products in a SAN Environment - Planning Manual