When you say inside I assume you have a tower. I have one of these drives in store somewhere, quite fascinating. My ZIP on the other hand is on an SCSI kit off the Blizzard. I prefer the SCSI.
Anywhoo.... There was an MO group for the Amiga and you might read through if you haven't already. They talk of editing the mount files. May help.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/amiga-mo/conversations/messages?messageStartId=200&archiveSearch=trueBe interested to know if you can get it running. Things don't last by the way, so don't be too angry with yourself. Dust yourself down and start over.