IMPORTANT. READ ON. AVOID LATER SURPRISES. I DON'T KNOW WHERE IS THIS INFO
POSTED OFFICIALLY. Maybe only inside a readme of the latest download?

C.

"Aaron Ruddick[Borland]" <aruddick@...> wrote in message
news:<3A5F3DD4.6FB47458@...>...

> We have removed this functionality from the product. You need to do a

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> on your ODS 9 databases and restore them with IB6 (dialect 1).
>
> Some of our customers have found certain permutations of ODS 9 and 8
> databases that IB6 cant read. We have not found any cases of data
> corruption, but we feel it is safer to do standard migration.
>
> Thank you,
> Aaron Ruddick
> InterBase QA
>
> Herman Steigstra wrote:
>
> > After having used IB 6.0.0.627 for quite a while without any problems, I
> > installed the latest version 6.0.1. Since then I cannot access any 5.x
> > gdb's anymore. IBConsole reports the following error:
> >
> > Unsupported on-disk structure for file xyz.gdb; found 9, support 10
> >
> > After reinstalling 6.0.0.627 I can access those databases again. Is this
> > intentional behavior and possibly related to licencing policies or just
> > a bug????
> >
> > Herman Steigstra
>