HP 9000 and PCI/USB for CD drive?

[Kenneth Tipper]

I have an old HP 9000 A400, and need to attach a CD-ROM drive. There seem to be no external SCSI drives available. Can I put a PCI USB card in it and attach an external USB CD-ROM drive? Are there any drivers that would work (not expecting it to be bootable).

[Joshua Scott]

There is an external SE SCSI connector on the back of the system. You can buy CD-ROM/DVD Drives that attach to the SCSI port on the back.

[Hemanth Gurunath Basrur · Accepted solution]

Hello Kenneth,

You can search for HP support & drivers at

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html

Also, refer the following links:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0xe24d28c64656d71190080090279cd0f9%2C00.html&admit=716493758+1066458674690+28353475

http://www.hp.com/communications/opencall/products/multsvc/infolibrary/ocmc_spec1_1.pdf

http://www.ezsystems.com/test/mike/HP9000.htm

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Hemanth