I've got a couple of NetApp DS14 fibre disk shelves from our "old" filers that I'd like to reuse. I attached one of the shelves to a server using a Qlogic 2200 card and although Windows detected the drives correctly I couldn't partition them or anything - no specific error message just saying that it couldn't.

What I'm wondering is:

Should I use the Qlogic card facility to low level format them? Will that make them usable in Windows?

Any suggestions on how I can implement RAID with these disks other than Windows software RAID?

Regards,
Iain