Found the trouble.  Whoever had the device before had RAID turned off (and no memory for it) and as well as SATA options.  Enabled and set up virtual drives.  Viola!
Trying to install Win 2012 R2 on a 2950 I picked up but am not able to find the drivers I need to get it to recognize the disks.  I had a similar issue with an 1850 and it was my RAID drivers... but this server doesn't appear to be utilizing RAID (nothing mentioned upon boot). 
PowerEdge 2950 - Win2012 R2 - Drives not Found