ok so here is the situation, i have obtained an old mcafee dlp 5500 server from my work and am converting it to a 12 bay nas for my house. the system already has an intel raid controller in it which i have used and configured to use 8 bays (max it can handle) into a virtual drive/raid array. once i got this done however, the only time i can see that it exists is in the raid controller bios. i have freenas running as the sole OS which is running off of a usb drive. Freenas installed and runs great however i cant see the disks anywhere to be able to use them. my guess is that i need to install the drivers on the hard drives since they have all been wiped and formatted since i got the server. that is however just a guess. im pretty new to using freenas and raid controllers and any type of nas in general. i have 2 (one 4 bay and one 5 bay) qnap nas already running on my home network but why wouldnt i want even more storage lol. if anyone has any suggestions or fixes to why i cant see any of the drives or the virtual raid array i already made it would be greatly appreciated. i know there has to be a way to make this work i just dont have the experience yet to make it happen. thanks guys. if you have any questions or need any further info id be happy to help you help me as much as i can.