USB Zip 100 Drive Not Found?

[Gordon Keehn]

    I just (this last weekend) did a fresh install of FC2 over FC1 on a 
slightly aged IBM Aptiva SE7 (450 mHz P-II, 256 mB RAM).  The initial 
install hung until I unplugged my USB Zip drive.  The install completed 
and I plugged the drive back in, but it wasn't recognized, and when I 
rebooted, the startup hung again at Detecting New Hardware.  Since then 
I have upgraded the Kernel to build 435, and I no longer experience the 
hang while rebooting with the USB drive plugged in.  However, I still 
can't access the drive.  It's particularly annoying because before 
upgrading from FC1, I backed up some files that I wanted to save on zip 
disks.  BTW, when I first plugged the drive in under FC1 it was 
recognized immediately, and a line was added to fstab automagically.
    Any ideas or assistance would be welcome.  I'm still not very 
familiar with Linux internals, but I'm great at following directions.
    Cheers,
Gordon Keehn