viewing other partitions/devices from PC-BSD

[Weixiong]

I've been hesitant to say anything as I thought I was probably missing the obvious but it seems as if I can't access any areas on my machine except the partition PC-BSD resides on. I list as drive options:

/home/Weixiong/ad0
/home/Weixiong/cdrom
/home/Weixiong/cdrom1
/mnt/usbflash0
/mnt/usbflash2
/mnt/usbflash3
/mnt/usbflash4

I have an 80GB Seagate Barracuda ATA HD and dualboot Win98SE/PC-BSD 0.75. My FAT32 partition is /home/Weixiong/ad0 but it appears to be completely empty. No Items-No Files-No Folders.

My DVD drive will play a music CD so it is working, but a CD burned with files appears empty (the drive appears empty) and I can't view anything on the music CD. The LG brand CD/RW won't play a CD or read the data disk.

An internal Iomega 100MB Zip drive isn't recognized and an external Iomega USB zip drive doesn't show anything in the /mnt/usbflash0 areas either. The power indicator lights up but none of the USB options show a disk as being inserted in the drive.

I don't mean to complain or anything, and sorry if this is due to stupidity on my part. It installed well and all other hardware was recognized. If I can get the CD/RW to burn a disk I might wipe the Windows partition and give it over to PC-BSD.

EDIT: I was finally able to access my Windows partition from /usr/home/Weixiong/Desktop/Computer/ado and the DVD player from /usr/home/Weixiong/Desktop/Computer/Windows/acd0.

The CD/RW drive works now that I've insatalled K3b so I'm going to wipe Windows and make it a dedicated PC-BSD box.

[Weixiong]

Somebody advised me by running dmesg -a |grep -i zip I could find out the addresses of my zip devices so I could make a shortcut. This is what it returned:
afd0: REMOVABLE <IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI/03.H> at ata0-slave BIOS
da0: <IOMEGA ZIP 100 90.J> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 devi
da1: <IOMEGA ZIP 100 03.H> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 devi
umass0: Iomega USB Zip 100, rev 1.10/2.00, addr 2
But when I made a shortcut from my desktop to any of the device addresses it can't mount the drive and get an error stating:

"mount /dev/umass0: unknown special file or file system"
"mount /dev/da1: unknown special file or file system"
"mount /dev/da0: unknown special file or file system"
"mount /dev/afd0: unknown special file or file system"

Does anybody know why and how to rectify the situation?

EDIT: The zipdrive is a slave to the DVD player. I get this error when running dmesg, it may be what's causing the problem:
ata0-slave: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=1<ERROR> error=4<ABORTED>
acd0: DVDROM <HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-5000/0212> at ata0-master PIO4
afd0: REMOVABLE <IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI/03.H> at ata0-slave BIOSPIO