Bitlocker, Windows 8 and self encrypting drives

I am trying to install a Seagate Constellation.2 self-encrypting drive with Windows 8 for use with Bitlocker. Articles that I've read imply that Bitlocker will recognise the SED.
There's no problem with the installation but there is no indication that Bitlocker sees it as anything other than a normal drive.
If I try to encrypt the full drive with Bitlocker, it's obvious, from the time it takes, that it is software encrypting it.
I have read the article about 'encrypted hard drives' and note that it says that SEDs are not the same thing. Frankly, I don't understand this and neither do other people on the web who have written saying that SEDs are now supported by Bitlocker.
Can you help with this please?
Thanks

The constellation ES.2 and ES.3 drives will not be able to be used as hardware encryption with Bitlocker on Windows Server 2012/8 they will just show as normal hard disks as your seeing and then you can use Bitlocker software encryption.
The reason they don't work is because Windows Server 2012/8 requires a OPAL 2 compliant drive and the Seagate constellation ES.2 and ES.3 drives are not OPAL 2 compliant drives. This is common across all vendors at the moment I was told, so until someone
releases a OPAL 2 compliant drive you will only be able to use bitlocker software encryption.
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