Power mac g5 2nd internal hard drive

I just installed a second hard drive into my power mac g5. It is a SATA drive installation was easy but now the computer isn't recognizing the drive. I've tried to initialize it but i am now a bit stuck. The drive shows up when i open disk utility but i'm not even sure where to go from there. There is a Mac OS X server update combined but i cannot select a destination for the installation and now i'm pretty much just stuck, any ideas?

Hi
To format a drive, open Disk Utility, highlight the drive in the left-hand list, go to the Erase tab, choose a format (generally, Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is recommended), enter a name for the drive, and click Erase.
I'm not sure how the update is connected - you say you're running OS X Server?
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