I just bought a new hd and boot on a knoppix cd to format and partion it, BUT

None of the tools fdisk, cfdisk etc can see the drive. Its the only hd in the system so I
expect it to be named hda. But its not there even that bios can see it and
if I boot on a win98 bootdisk, it can see it too.

So what are a completly new hd called or how to I format it the first time??

Should I try mkfs on the entire disk or what tool to use?

Thx