Tyan Computer B2891 manual Features

1.3Features

Enclosure

•Industry 19” rack-mountable 1U chassis storage bay

–(4) 3.5” HDD bays

–(1) slim line CD-ROM bay

–(1) slim line FDD bay

•Dimension: D 25.4 x W 17.2 x H 1.72 inch (645x436x43.6mm)

Processors

•Supports one or two AMD Opter- onTM 200 series processors

Chipset

•nVIDIA nForce4 Professional + AMD-8131 Hyper Transport PCI-X Tunnel

•Winbond W83627HF Super I/O chip

•ADT7463 Hardware monitor IC

Memory

•Eight 184-pin 2.5-Volt DDR DIMM sockets

•Supports up to 16GB of Registered, ECC DDR400/333 memory

•Supports Chipkill technology

Expansion Slots

•One 64-bit 100MHz (3.3V) PCI-X slot, supporting low profile card (for S4H, S4-LC sku only)

•One PCI-E x16 slot

•Tyan TARO SO-DIMM connector for add-on storage controller card

Back I/O Ports

•One keyboard & one PS/2 mouse ports

•Two RJ45 10/100/1000 Base-T port with activity LED

•Two USB 2.0 ports

•One 9-pin UART serial port

•One 15-pin VGA port

Front Panel Features

•I/O

–(2) USB 2.0 ports

•LED indicators

–Power LED

–(2) LAN LEDs

–HDD active LED

•Switches

–Power switch

–Reset switch

Storage Controller

• Model B2891G24U4H:

– Add-on Tyan M7901 SCSI con- .troller card (Adaptec AIC7901 single channel Ultra320 SCSI controller), connected to Tyan

TARO SO-DIMM

–Supporting HostRAID 0,1 & 10

•Model B2891G24S4H/S4-LC

–Two dual-port SATAII controllers integrated in nVIDIA nForce4 Pro chip

–Supporting 3Gb/s per port

–Supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and nVIDIA Morphing RAID (allowing to change the RAID type on the fly)

Storage

•Model B2891G24U4H: SCSI ver- sion, supports up to 4 hot-swappa- ble Ultra320/160/ SCSI HDDs

•Model B2891G24S4H: SATA ver- sion, supports up to 4 hot-swappa- ble SATA HDDs

•Model B2891G24S4-LC: SATA ver- sion, supports up to 4 internal SATA HDDs.

•Optional slim line CD-ROM, DVD- ROM and FDD

Networking

•(2) Gigabit Ethernet ports (Broad- com BCM5704 dual port controller) connected to 133MHz PCI-X bus

Video

•ATI RAGE XL PCI graphics control- ler

•8MB Frame Buffer of video memory

Motherboard

•Tyan Thunder K8SRE S2891G2NR

•E-ATX footprint (13” x 12”)

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