Fin Addendum – Determining if a system is RoHS compliant

This document describes information to assist in the identification of the compliance status for Sun's electrical and electronic equipment systems under the RoHS Directive. The document will be updated as 'transitioned' systems are released.

You should only use these instructions if you are not able to use the Action Plan Creator Tool or the RoHS lookup tool. Briefly, the table is a safe approximation of RoHS compliance, but in using it, you may identify a non-compliant system as compliant. See note below for fuller explanation.

Briefly, for many systems, this identification of compliance may not be needed for servicing systems. This is because most of our existing or old systems (that is systems which are not available for sale after July 1 2006) exist in a non-compliant form only. Many new products that we plan to continue to sell after July 1, 2006 were only manufactured in a RoHS compliant form. However, there is a range of current products which we are re-engineering to achieve compliance with the RoHS Directive, and the release of these compliant products have occurred over time, with no common release date.

To assist with determining whether a system in the field which needs servicing is compliant or not, the compliance status can be determined from the system serial number, by applying some simple guidelines or rules, as set forth in this Addendum. System serial numbers typically have a year and week of manufacture coded into the number, and this can be used to identify RoHS compliant systems. Above a certain date code, the table assumes compliant systems were manufactured. However, see note below.

To be published

• Netra 1280

In all approximately 30 systems are expected to manufactured in both RoHS compliant and non-compliant versions. Systems may not appear in this list for the following reasons

• The system is only available as EITHER a compliant system or as a non-compliant system,but not both. In this case, you should continue to diagnose and service by identifying parts required from the Sun System Handbook.

• Although there are plans to introduce compliant versions of systems, they have yet to be released. (A number will only be released during Q1 FY07). The presence of a system in the above table implies that the compliant version has been released. We do not want to seemingly pre-announce release in this document, and of course, serial number information is not necessarily available prior to shipment.

This section will be updated as transitioned systems are released.

Note: There may be some discrepancies in results between using the method described in this document and the results from using the sccweb action plan creator tool. In some instances, RoHS compliant and non-compliant products were manufactured concurrently. The action plan creator tool uses a lookup table of all known RoHS compliant systems to accurately identify whether a system is compliant based on the serial number provided. The procedure in this document ensures that we always identify a compliant system as such, by assuming all systems of a product type manufactured after start of manufacture of compliant systems are compliant. This means that there will be occasions when a non-compliant system is identified as compliant. (For example, Sun may have manufactured both RoHS compliant and non-compliant V890 with a serial number of the form 0612xxxxxx).In such circumstances, if a part needs to be replaced, it can be replaced by a part with the same part number (assuming the part number of the component being replaced can be identified), even if that part is not RoHS compliant.

As of Sept 25, 2006, the ATR action plan creator tool has been updated. The tool will state whether a serial number corresponds to 1 of 4 states, the system is 'Y' compliant. The system is 'YL' compliant, the system is non-compliant, and the system serial number does not appear in the database. There may be instances where a valid serial number does not appear in the database, but typically the reason is a mis-quoted or mis-typed serial number.

Finally, please bear in mind that as non-RoHS compliant versions pass End of (Sales) Life, they will move from the Current Systems list to the EOL Systems list. So be sure to look in both places.

Last Updated: Oct 16 2006