Hello shaicap You won't be able to do anything with the drives, except hot spare,  until you put them in a virtual disk. Create a virtual disk with them and then you can initialize. Thanks
hello poweredge 2950 with perc5/i with existing raid1 VD 130GB and windows 2008 i want to make it a file server so i got a couple of Toshiba MK2001TRKB (2GB) drives. when i view PD menu i see 4 drives, the new Toshiba drives show - OK status. when i F2 to initialize etc its GRAYED OUT, i only get the option to use as hot spares. any ideas will be most welcome!
Grayed out PD options on Perc5/i - 2GB drives