Formatting new ATA drive

I've installed a new Maxtor 300 GB ATA/100 drive in the remaining bay in my G4. I rebooted and everything runs normally, and the drive shows up in the disk utility window, but it is not yet formatted. I presume that I should go ahead and partition the drive to complete the process.
Given the size of this drive, what partition size would be recommended. I'm primarily looking at storage for video, audio, and photo files.

Hello! If you only want one partition I would go to the partition tab and partition it as one partition and then go to the erase panel and erase using the zero data option to map out bad blocks since often a new drive has a few. then you're good to go. Beware it takes several hours (probably overnight on a 300 gig drive) to erase using the zero data option. Tom

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