Tyan Computer B3970-U Network Card User Manual


 
Chapter 1: Overview 1
Chapter 1: Overview
1.1 About the Transport GT20 B3970-U
Congratulations on your purchase of the TYAN Transport
TM
GT20 (B3970-U), a highly-optimized rack-mountable bareb-
one system. The Transport GT20 (B3970-U) is designed to
support AMD
®
Opteron™ 2000 940-pin processor, providing
a rich feature set and incredible performance. Leveraging
advanced technology from AMD
®
, the Transport GT20
(B3970-U) server system is capable of offering scalable 32
and 64-bit computing, high-bandwidth memory design, and a
lightning-fast PCI-X bus implementation. The Transport
TM
GT20 (B3970-U) not only empowers your company in today’s
demanding IT environment but also offers a smooth path for
future application usage.
TYAN is also proud to deliver the Transport
TM
GT20 (B3970-
U) in SATA flavor while supporting up to four (4) hot-swap
hard drives, one (1) slim CD-ROM and one (1) optional slim
floppy disk drive (not included). The Transport
TM
GT20
(B3970-U) uses TYAN’s latest tooling-made chassis featuring
a robust structure, tool-less and modularized design, and a
solid mechanical enclosure. All of this provides the Trans-
port
TM
GT20 (B3970-U) the power and flexibility to meet the
needs of nearly any server application.
1.2 Product Model
Model HDD Bays
Hot-Swap
Support
HDD
Backplane
B3970-UG20V4H
Removable,
4 HDDs
Yes 4-port SATA