Configuration problem with poweredge 2900 perc 6/i

Hi,

So what I'm trying to accomplish is it bought a used poweredge 2900 did not have any drives with it. Bought 12 Hitachi 300gb sas drives. The problem that I'm running into right now is when I first installed the drives and powered the system up all drives had green lights, after attempting to configure the array with a new virtual disk the drives show as failed in the physical disk management screen and have blinking amber health lights. However if I reseat the drives they go back to being green light and showing as ready after reboot in the physical disk management screen.

Thanks for any help.

Eventually I plan to install Windows server 2003 r2 on this if I can get that far in the process.