Following the guideline on this site, I set up udev on my Debian Etch desktop sometime ago. Everything worked okay I was able to plug in various USB devices and I could easily mount them using a sane entry in /etc/fstab.

Time passes...

Last week I noticed that udev wasn't setting up the devices in the plces I wanted. I asked on my LUG and did a few Google searches. I don't know when it happened but there has been a change in how the rules are parsed, and now evidently need a double equals for matching rules...

So what once was:

BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="Easy", SYSFS{model}="Disk", SYMLINK="easy_disk"

Is now:

BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}=="Easy", SYSFS{model}=="Disk", SYMLINK="easy_disk"

I'm sure it's explained in the docs somewhere, but udev is something I set once and forgot. Ho hum... It's all working now.