Square Peg in a Round Hole (NI HDD-8265)

I work for "Insert Major Company Here", and we are moving warehouses and scrapping out old inventory that hasn't moved. So, I have acquired two National Instruments HDD-8265's that I would love to be able to set up in my rack at home as a JBOD, however, they are PXI Chassis and that is way out of my wheelhouse. 

There is no motherboard, just an ARC1882IX-12/16/24 Ver. 3A Raid Card, which is connected to and being powered by, via a PCIx16 Slot Card OSS-ECA-1x4-1x6. This seems to be how it's intended to connect to the host system, however I don't have the cable for this, and it cost at best $700 for that.. 

I know the RAID Card is able to do what I want, however without a way for it to talk to a host system to set it up, it's basically just a brick. I had one idea, but I'd rather run it by someone who knows more than I about this than just spend any more time trying to rig a way around the inevitable. 

Q: Can I attach up this RAID Card to my home server in a free PCIe Slot, while leaving all the MiniSAS ports connected to the drives in the PXI Chassis, do the BIOS Set-Up, them place it back into the PXI Chassis and use the Web Based UI to configure the rest? It makes sense in my head, but that could be due to a lack of insight. 

Appreciate any insight, feedback, or knowledge. 

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I'll take that as I've asked the wrong community for help. 10/4

Interesting!  I didn't know NI built RAID equipment.  The manual is not very helpful for me because I'm more visual, and I don't see the HDD rack connectors.  Perhaps you could hook your computer to the HDD rack using a different adapter card, one compatible with your PC.  That's what I would try to do anyway.

About the PXI card, it's just an adapter card for the PXI bus.  You would need a computer with a PXI bus, and the PXI backplane rack to plug both cards (CPU card + disk adapter card).  You may not want to go that route, and perhaps may not have the space for all that stuff.