Ide Zip drive with amiga

[Gav]

Hi
For a long time ive owned a ide 100mb zip drive for my amiga,but at that time i had upgraded to broadband and well my amiga has been offline since april so now im in need of some help.Well the help i need is simple,how do i get it to be recognized from the amiga?
I have a power flyer and i see the zip drive in the atapi prefs but there is no disk on the screen when i insert one.So im not wanting to share files .I put the zip icon in the dos drivers folder and set the unit number to 2 as its secondary master but when i reset there is nothing there on my screen. with my pc or anything so its just for use in my amiga as backup so if anyone can help it would be great to finally get some use out of it.
Thanks for any help.
Gav

[Gav]

I did prep it once in hdtool box but there is no point in doing that because they act like a HD and cant be removed unless you switch off the machine.The disk was amiga formatted and thats about all i can say.The iotools are also useless and ppl have told me they have had no luck in using it either as i heard its not to good with ide zip drives.So yeah ive already used to zip file from the os3.9 cd and changed the unit to number 2 and still no luck.
Thanks for any help.
Gav