Problem: I would like to have my camera be mounted automatically when I plug it into its usb cable. NB: Although it is plugged into the usb, it is seen as a scsi device. I have a line in fstab: /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 I have made a dimage.rules file for udev: BUS="scsi", SYSFS{model}="DiMAGE F100", KERNEL="sd?1", SYMLINK="camera" I got some of this information by entering the command: udevinfo -a -p 'udevinfo -q path -n /dev/sda1' This is the output I get: device '/sys/block/sda/sda1' has major:minor 8:1 looking at class device '/sys/block/sda/sda1': SUBSYSTEM=="block" SYSFS{dev}=="8:1" SYSFS{size}=="493979" SYSFS{start}=="101" SYSFS{stat}==" 163 163 0 0" follow the "device"-link to the physical device: looking at the device chain at '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0': BUS=="scsi" ID=="2:0:0:0" DRIVER=="sd" SYSFS{device_blocked}=="0" SYSFS{iocounterbits}=="32" SYSFS{iodone_cnt}=="0x2b" SYSFS{ioerr_cnt}=="0x0" SYSFS{iorequest_cnt}=="0x2b" SYSFS{max_sectors}=="240" SYSFS{model}=="DiMAGE F100 " SYSFS{queue_depth}=="1" SYSFS{queue_type}=="none" SYSFS{rev}=="1.00" SYSFS{scsi_level}=="3" SYSFS{state}=="running" SYSFS{timeout}=="30" SYSFS{type}=="0" SYSFS{vendor}=="MINOLTA " couldn't open device directory Perhaps of note is the fact that the number on the line SYSFS{stat} is not the same every time Also, the note at the end of the output for this command: "couldn't open device directory" Is that normal? Why couldn't directory be opened? When I manually mount, it opens just fine. When I plug in the camera: - the modules are loaded automatically (verified with tail messages, etc) - the aforementioned line appears in fstab - /dev/sda1 is created - a link /dev/camera --> /dev/sda1 is created - /media/usbdisk is created However, the camera is not mounted and I have to do so manually :-( When I turn off the camera: - /media/usbdisk disappears, but only after a very long time (in a few instances it didn't disappear and on next boot, when I plugged in the camera again, /media/usbdisk1 was created, in addition to the pre-existing /media/usbdisk from the previous session) - the line in fstab also disappears (I would have preferred to have /media/camera, but usbdisk appears no matter what I write in fstab, so instead of fighting it, I decided that it will have to do, unless someone knows why...) Does anyone know how to get this working? Help would be much appreciated.