Unable to knock to Areca ARC-6020

Question

Several months ago we got an RAID Areca ARC 6020, without any cable and instruction how to setup that. This device is real dinosaur but we would like to make it workable as storage array in our team.

I tried to ping that over network but not succeeded with that. I even don't know what IP it has. I am not geek in system networking to define it and will be appreciated in any instruction how to compel this heap of iron to begin to work :)

Box that hosted ARC does have only LAN and strange port with many contacts looks like SCSI but more longer.

Answer 1

There's not that much information online about this box but it appears to be a simple SCSI to SATA converter tied to a SATA enclosure of some sort. Presumably this was just to allow some old SCSI-only machine to access cheapo SATA drives for some reason. The wide connector will probably be one form of SCSI connector but I doubt the 'LAN port' is that, it's probably something else entirely just using an RJ45 socket.

I'd avoid using it, especially given your lack of knowledge in this area. If you're dead-set on using it I'd just be tempted to rip out the disks and use them in some kind or normal SATA box that can attach to whatever server you want it to worth with.

You've provided very little information in your question so this is the best we'll be able to do, also what the hell does "Unable to knock to" mean? It means nothing in English at all.