BC Triton Series, Chapter 1

BC Triton Series
Chapter 1 - Introduction

Overview

The BC Triton includes several models of processors as described below:

SERVER (TS): BC 5166/5200TS - the 166/200MHz Pentium processor-based ISA board with a 32-bit PCI SCSI interface and optional PCI bus extension, up to 512 MB of RAM, and a 10/100Mbps PCI Ethernet interface

ENGINE (TE): BC 5133/5166/5200TE - the 133/166/200MHz Pentium processor-based ISA board with a 32-bit PCI SCSI interface, optional PCI bus extension, up to 128 MB of RAM, and a 10/100Mbps PCI Ethernet interface

Hardware

Each BC Triton board includes video support, two serial ports, one parallel port, keyboard and mouse support, on board memory, and floppy and IDE hard drive support. Also included is an integrated 10/100 Base-T Ethernet controller and a fast/wide SCSI interface.

The BC Triton processor is designed for installation in the following Cubix enclosures:

BOS (Branch Office System). May contain up to three boards.
ERS II (Enhanced Resource Subsystem II).
ERS-FT II (Enhanced Resource Subsystem/Fault Tolerant II) .

Feature Comparison

Tables 1-1 and 1-2 show the differences between models of BC Triton Series boards.

BC Model	Bus	CPU Speed	L2 Cache	SCSI	Maximum DRAM*
5133TE	ISA/PCI	133	256K	Yes	128MB
5166TE	ISA/PCI	166	256K	Yes	128MB
5200TE	ISA/PCI	200	256K	Yes	128MB
5166TS	ISA/PCI	166	0-512K	Yes	512MB
5200TS	ISA/PCI	200	0-512K	Yes	512MB

Table 1-1

Function	BC 5xxxTE	BC 5xxxTS
Post LED's	YES	YES
Floppy Drive	YES	YES
IDE (primary)	YES	YES
IDE (secondary)	NO	YES
COM1	YES	YES
COM2	YES	YES
SCSI (50 pin)	YES	YES
SCSI (68 pin)	YES	YES
PCI Expansion	YES	YES
LPT 1	YES	YES
Memory Modules	SIMMs	DIMMs
Line Busy (COM1 only)	YES	NO
Ethernet	YES	YES
Video Disable Jumper	YES	NO
SCSI Disable Jumper	YES	NO
Ethernet Disable Jumper	YES	NO

Table 1-2

Board Identification

Figure 1-1
The BC5xxxTE has two right angle SIMM sockets.

Figure 1-2
The BC5xxxTS has 4 vertical DIMM sockets.

Software

Integrated onto each BC Series processor is a BIOS developed by American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI). In addition, Cubix provides software to customers to support the following features.

Mouse Multiplexing - software is required to allow a single mouse to be multiplexed between multiple BC processors
Cubix Supervisory System - Cubix optionally provides a system which monitors and controls the BC processors and requires software support on each BC.
DEC 21140 PCI Fast Ethernet Interface - use of the integrated Ethernet controller requires installation of 10/100 Base-T drivers
Symbios 825A SCSI Interface - use of the integrated SCSI interface requires installation of SCSI drivers. Table 1-1 lists the boards supporting the SCSI interface.
S3 Trio64V+ (765) Enhanced Video - installation of video drivers is required to increase the video resolution in certain environments