by Alex Early and Dave Black
Commercial Systems Division
The embedded CD-ROM shipped with many HP 3000 servers has
come to the end of its life. However, many customers purchased HP
3000s with CD-ROMs to take advantage of system update material and
manuals that are available on CDs. The A3715A, a 12x CR-ROM, is
being replaced by the new DVD-ROM. The DVD-ROM supports usage of
the older CD-ROM disks.
Customers wishing to take advantage of DVD-ROM for updates,
can simply add a DVD-ROM to their HP 3000 system. For customers
in support contracts, who have older CD-ROMs, your CD-ROM will be
replaced with a DVD-ROM, if there are no CD-ROMs available. The
DVD-ROM drive unit has a 32X CD-ROM transfer rate. The DVD-ROM is supported
in the following packages: