The only disk detected by fdisk is hdd (the internal hard drive). as I understand it (and please correct me if I'm wrong at any point), this is on IDE secondary slave. The zip drive is on the IDE primary master - which means hda. however, this cannot be mounted (and nor can hda1 either) and I cannot edit it with cfdisk. please tell me if I'm trying to access it the wrong way or what any problem may be.
(additional, when the zip disk is inserted into the zip drive a little orange light comes on and it makes a whiring noise for a bit)