ide-floppy vs devfs

[Jack Howarth]

     I have noticed for quite some time that if use the
ide-floppy driver instead of ide-scsi to access my 
Powermac's ide zip drive that the device is not created
unless media is in the drive at boot time. This is with
Debian sid and devfs in use. Does anyone else see this
same behavior? Also is this a Powermac specific issue
or does it happen on intel as well? This is on the
linux 2.4.xx kernels.
                             Jack