udev and Iomega Zip drives

[Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net>]

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I just started using udev and I'm really thrilled so far. Having 4 USB
drives always appearing on the correct /dev/ entry is REALLY nice. Well,
make that 3. The 4th one is my Iomega Zip drive. And while it appears at
the correct /dev/ entry, it doesn't create any partition entries unless
the drive was plugged in with a disk already inside.

If I add a disk later, I have to access the drive in order for the disk
to be detected (fdisk -l /dev/iomega-zip for example). The problem is
that Zip drives ONLY use partition 4. So in order to mount the disk, I
have to mount /dev/iomega-zip4. I want that entry to be created as soon
as /dev/iomega-zip is created, regardless of whether there is a disk or
not so that when there IS a disk inside, I won't have to run fdisk -l or
anything else first. Unfortunately, using NAME{all_partitions} doesn't
work because it creates 15 partitions. This causes the drive to get VERY
confused and to spew out all sorts of invalid partition errors.

So is there a way to create just the partition 4 device as soon as the
device entry is created? Thanks in advance for any help.
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Alex Malinovich
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