Originally Posted by jayme_

to get rid of the 'linux raid autodetect' you need to re-partition (i suggest using 'parted' rather than 'fdisk' since fdisk has size limitations of 1.5TB (and it does not work on GPT table types)) and set the partition types to 'Linux'

After you partition the sdb properly via 'parted' you need to make a filesystem on it (i.e. mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1).


Hope that helps, good luck ;)