iomega zip drive automount

[Mark W.]

(using dapper beta, but the same was observed on breezy)

I have an ide (internal) 100mb iomega zip drive on /dev/hdd,
and all my media is partitioned/formatted by win2k, so
that there is a single primary partition, presumably hdd1.

There is a "Zip Drive" icon in places/computer, but when
clicking on it mount fails, reporting a failed attemp to mount
hdd4. Why hdd4 and not hdd1? There is no reference to /dev/hdd
in mtab, and fstab has an entry for hdd (to be mouneted on
media/hdd).

Where would I look for the documentation on how automounting
works, so that I can mount zip disks inserted in zip drive
(user rw, presumably on /media/zip) and unmount/eject them.

tia, Mark W.