Internal ZIP drive and udev device nodes

I am running Fedora Core 4,

     kernel-2.6.15-1.1831_FC4
     udev-071-0.FC4.2
     hal-0.5.2-2.fc4.1

on an IBM ThinkCentre 8143-4JU
Pentium 4 550 with HT 3400MHz
Intel 915G chipset
Iomega ZIP 100 ATAPI drive
(as slave on second chain; master on that chain is
a DVD-ROM/CD-RW)
On a boot, /dev/hdd is created, but the required /dev/hdd4 is not. On insertion of media, /dev/hdd4 is not created.
On attempted mount of /dev/hdd with media in drive
(mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /media/zip)
mount fails (as expected, "wrong fstype ...", because media
has a partition table) but /dev/hdd4 is created
Subsequently, mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /media/zip works correctly

An entry
/dev/hdd4 /media/zip auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
exists in /etc/fstab.
However, neither
mount /media/zip
nor
mount /dev/hdd4
work, either before or after the /dev/hdd4 device node is created.

Looking for pointers to documentation that describes how removable media with partition tables are supposed to work and/or advice on correcting this problem.

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