Thanks everyone for the help so far. I ordered 4 or the drives I mentioned above so that I can set up a RAID once I can get the filer configured. I also now have a serial to USB cable and PuTTY, but so far I haven't been able to establish a connection to the filer through the console cable. I don't know much about PuTTY or Telnet, but my brother does know a little bit and is helping me here and there. I also have a serial cable with a serial to RJ45 adapter, so if I need to use that in place of the serial to USB cable, that's easy enough to do. The settings we have been using in PuTTY are as follows:
Com3 (which is what the serial to USB cable shows as in Device Manager)
Speed (baud) 9600
Data bits 8
Stop bits 1
Parity None
Flow control None
Based on what is displayed on the LCD screen as it boots, I'm guessing that it is booting normally, at least to a point. Below is the text that is displayed as it boots (a couple spots might be slightly inaccurate, as a few things flash across the screen fairly quickly):
Testing CPU
Testing clock
Testing pc-card
Checking sensors
Probing devices at /pci4/pci@7/pci6/fcal@3
Set boot alias
Testing 512MB
2 to 64MB (tests up to 512MB in 64MB increments)
kernel¥primary.krn
Starting
There are also 3 LED's that will come on either blinking or solid periodically as it is booting, but I haven't paid a lot of attention to them so far. It will also display "Entering firmware..." if I push the small button on the front (originally thought it was a hard reset button) when "Starting" is displayed, but it will not proceed from "Entering firmware..." even after several hours of waiting.
If anyone has any tips or advice on how to connect to the filer and do initial configuration, I would greatly appreciate it. As far as info about the filer, I know what the MAC address is, and I know what the machine name could be (not guaranteed though), and I can assign it a specific IP address through DHCP, but I'm guessing that it at least has a static IP set as standard practice, and may not even have the option of using DHCP. So in short, the first things I will likely need to configure are the machine name and the IP address.
Again, thanks for the help.