partitioning under debian and access to removable drives

[Ricardo <ric_n_cerq@iol.pt>]

Hi. My name is Ricardo. I have 4 partitions on my hdd:  /, /swap and
the anothers that i would like to associate to  /home and /downloads.
do i have to do like i did with my cdrom and cdrw: 

mkdir /cdrom
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdx /cdrom ...?

do i have to do something like this(something familiar)?
what can i do or were can i get help(i've been searching and have found
nothing)?

p.s.-i'm having problems  accessing my floppy(1.4) and  zip100 ide
drive. it gives an error of input/output, what sould i do?