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The European Union Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment, referred to as the RoHS Directive, was entered into force by the European Parliament and the Council on January 27, 2003.

The RoHS Directive restricts the use of the following 6 substances in electrical and electronic products put on the market in the European Union after July 1, 2006:

• Lead
• Cadmium
• Mercury
• Hexavalent chromium
• Polybrominated biphenyls (PBB)
• Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDE)

The RoHS Directive contains certain exemption based on substance categories, as well as by equipment use. Of particular importance for the purpose of this communication is the allowable exemption for spare parts for the repair and reuse of equipment put on the market before July 1, 2006. The spare parts exemption under the RoHS Directive permits Sun to use spare parts that do not comply with the RoHS substance restrictions to repair, or for the reuse of, non-compliant equipment previously put on the market before July 1, 2006.

Sun is replacing certain products and re-engineering others to meet these substance restrictions for products we sell after July 1, 2006, or is utilizing allowable exemptions permitted under the law Although applicable to equipment put on the market in the European Union, Sun, in keeping with other companies within the industry, is treating this as a product portfolio change for equipment sold globally. This change to Sun's entire equipment product line is to ensure that we deliver the same products and services to our customers, regardless of where in the world they are located, and in anticipation of similar substance restriction legislation coming into effect in other parts of the world.

Sun cannot use spare parts that do not comply with the RoHS substance restrictions with RoHS-compliant equipment.  Therefore, to enable Services to support our new RoHS-compliant equipment, we are starting to build stocks of RoHS compliant spare parts in our spares inventory. While many of the RoHS-compliant spare parts have been qualified as field replacement units (FRUs) for existing non-compliant equipment put on the market before July 1, 2006, Sun may experience supply constraints for these new, compliant FRUs. To better manage inventory and supply of RoHS-compliant FRUs, and with the goal of mitigating any risk of stock out situations, use non-compliant FRUs to service or repair existing non-compliant equipment to the maximum extent possible. Until further notice, use of RoHS-compliant FRUs should be limited to the repair of RoHS-compliant equipment.

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Solution

Workaround

General repair instructions:

1. Base replacement decisions on this FIN, by utilizing the system serial number and the SSH.
2. Do not place a non-compliant spare part into a compliant system.
3. Replace non-compliant spare parts with non-compliant spare parts wherever possible, unless Instruction 4 applies.
4. Limit use of compliant spare parts to systems that are compliant.
5. If replacing a non-compliant part that may have been inadvertently placed into a compliant system or placed into a compliant system by a party other than Sun, only replace that spare part with a compliant spare part.

As an example (and this list is certainly not exhaustive) of how to tell the compliant parts from the non:

Platform               Serial Number Range   Appropriate Action
--------               -------------------   ------------------
Sun Fire V210          xx603xxxx or below    Non-compliant
xx604xxxx or above    Compliant
Sun Fire V240          xx603xxxx or below    Non-compliant
xx604xxxx or above    Compliant
Sun Fire V440          606xxxxx  or below    Non-compliant
607xxxxx  or above    Compliant

Resolution

The current list of platforms with compliant and non-compliant versions is available at:

• http://operations.central/rohs/ and follow link to 'Serial number range information'

or

• http://sunwebcms.central.sun.com:8001/sunweb/cda/mainAssembly/0,2685,378517_37959_43864428,00.html

Where available, use the sccweb action plan creator tool to assist in developing a high quality action plan. The tool will be enhanced to include RoHS features in May 2006. It's available at:

• http://sccweb.central/general.jsp

If serial numbers are not available or otherwise in doubt, use the 'prtfru' command on the system being diagnosed to identify part number of FRU to be replaced, and use SSH to select the same or equivalent part where possible.

In some circumstances, for example, with disk drives, the 540-xxxx FRU to be ordered may contain 'multi-source' 'bare' drives. These multi-source drives may be compliant and non-compliant. The SSH will not state that the 540-xxxx part is 'RoHS'. Treat parts of this nature as non-compliant.

 
Related Information

• URL: http://operations.central/rohs
  http://sunweb.central.sun.com/portal/dt?JSPTabContainer.setSelected=MYMARKETING&last=false
  http://sccweb.central/general.jsp

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