[Herefordshire] Adding a new hard drive to a Linux system - guidelines??

[Matt Rhys-Roberts]

Howdy y'all...

Are there a set of simple steps to adding, recognising and configuring a 
blank hard drive?

I have just found an old (~10Gb) hard drive, which has been low-level 
formatted; no partition info, master boot record or anything on it any 
more. I'd like to add it to my Mandrake system, which if it were a 
Windoze system I'd opt for making it the IDE primary slave.

Thanks whatever

Matt
Leominster