My two cents;

I have nothing good to say about 6.5 yet as it has caused us numerous panics and disconnects since it was released. It seems a new patch/debug for it is released very week.

For the F840, there are some problems with CIFS and XP-SP2 that can prevent clients from connecting, so I would definitely upgrade to a version that addresses that issue. Which version? See if you can get a 6.4.x.... version to use until the 6.5.2R1 gets released. At this stage it looks like it is 1-2 weeks away.

Once 6.5.2R1 is released, I would move those Nearstores to it immediately, if only to avoid that Rapid Raid Recovery (or disk copy) bug (Bug#139525) that punished one of my systems using 6.5.2 last week. 6.5.2P6 was released to address it and other issues, however you can work around it specifically by temporarily disabling the raid.disk.copy.auto.enable option. Go R1 and then switch it back on.

We are at 6.5.2. I am going to skip 6.5.2P6 due to some possible issues that may affect our environment and go directly to 6.5.2R1 when it becomes available.

At the end of the day, you need to look at the bugs and compare them with your environment in order to determine if you are at risk.

I hope this makes the decision a little easier.

--Aaron

-----Original Message----- From: Simon Ferrett [mailto:simon@musicmatch.com] Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 2004 4:59 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: OnTap 6.5.2/6.5.2P6/6.5.2R1 ?

Hi Folks,

Last week I updated my three nearstore units to 6.5.2 after experiencing a shelf-hang issue on two of them. That got me to thinking about updating another system (a F840 running 6.1R1 - it's been up forever, about 420 days) since it's running such an old version of OnTap and some of the clients here in the office are migrating to to XP-SP2.

Anyhow - looking on the NOW site I noticed there are a few critical bugs in 6.5.2 which are supposed to be fixed in 6.5.2R1 - which doesn't exist yet. 6.5.2P6 does exist, however, so I was curious if I should wait until P6 becomes R1 before upgrading? I hate to rock the boat on a system which has been up and stable for a year and a half, but with XP-SP2 clients coming online I'm sure there's going to be some issues come up with the old 6.1 version its running.

Also I was curious if I should also re-update the 6.5.2 systems I have to R1 when it comes out just to be sure that I'm not going to hit any of the known issues in 6.5.2 on them.

Is anyone running 6.5.2P6 here on the list or have any comments about the actual critical-ness of those bugs in 6.5.2 which have been fixed in P6 (or R1 when it becomes available) - or know when 6.5.2R1 might hit the streets? The NOW site says 'this week' but I'm not sure when the document was authored... Just curious what the general consensus was on 6.5.2/6.5.2R1 etc.

Cheers, Simon.

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