Iomega Zip 100 USB drive....howto use/active it?

[Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca>]

presumably some relevent usb modules need to be loaded:
currently:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
ide-scsi                7488   0
nls_cp437               4384   0  (autoclean)
cs4281                 45600   0
soundcore               3236   3  [cs4281]
r128                   88696   0
parport_pc             25704   1  (autoclean)
lp                      6912   0  (autoclean)
parport                21728   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
nls_iso8859-1           2880   0  (autoclean)
pcmcia_core            41408   0
eepro100               17264   1
keybdev                 1664   0  (unused)
usbkbd                  2848   0  (unused)
input                   3072   0  [keybdev usbkbd]
usb-uhci               20708   0  (unused)
usbcore                48032   0  [usbkbd usb-uhci]


How does one create a file system on disk? Does it make sense to mount
stuff? What /dev/ file is used?