[sclug] udev vs Zip drive

[Will Dickson]

Hi all,

I've got a Zip drive which sits - well, used to :-( - on 
/dev/hdd4 backing up my development codebase. Then I 
upgraded to SuSE 9.2, which has kernel 2.6 and udev. Now, 
udev happily creates /dev/hdd and /dev/hdd[1-59], but 
*doesn't* create /dev/hdd4! If I mknod it manually, it works 
for a bit (although eject doesn't work, which is a PITA) but 
then udev comes along a bit later and deletes it again.

The other wierdness which might be related is that I've got 
ide-floppy complaining in dmesg that there's no disk in the 
drive, but it's not in lsmod, and if I modprobe ide-floppy, 
  modprobe can't find the module!

Has anyone else come across anything like this? I'm tearing 
my hair out here - I can't back up, and we use Zip disks all 
the time to sneakernet between networks.

TIA


Will.