Udev/hal rules won't automount my ipod

Question

After following directions in the wiki articles on hal and udev to get my ipod to automount and generate the /dev/ipod device, I'm at a loss because nothing seems to work as explained. (I'm running Arch64 with LXDE)
I've added the following rule to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ipod.fdi:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<device>
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.model" string="iPod">
<merge key="volume.policy.desired_mount_point" type="string">ipod</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.iocharset=iso8859-15" type="bool">true</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
I've added the following rule to /etc/udev/rules.d/60-ipod.rules
BUS=="usb", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Apple*", ATTRS{model}=="iPod*", KERNEL=="sd?2", SYMLINK+="ipod", NAME="%k", GROUP="storage"
When I plug in the ipod, Pcmanfm will show 'Apple Ipod Music Player' in the left column with the other drives. When I click on it, it will properly mount the ipod to /media/{name of ipod}. I would like it to mount every ipod at /media/ipod, and create a link /dev/ipod. I haven't put anything in the fstab yet, but in any case, the /dev/ipod link is not created. I know the udev rules work, because it will create the correct link for /dev/pilot when I plug in my Palm.
Help! I'm trying hard to wrap my brain around this, and I don't understand why it's not creating the /dev/ipod link. I've restarted the computer and restarted hal and reloaded udev rules multiple times with no changes.
Thanks!
Scott

Answer 1

Ahhh....thank you!  If I take out the 'last_rule' option it does indeed show up on pcmanfm. However, I think it's happening somewhere outside the parsing of the udev rules (perhaps HAL???) because even if I moved the local rules to the very last (99-local.rules) but kept in the 'last_rule' option, it would still not show up.
Now, second problem is trying to distinguish between flash drive and ipod. I thought you could use a != on an attribute. The rules below still result in /dev/sdb2 on the ipod getting mounted twice .... once to /media/ipod and once to /media/usbhd-sdb2.
## Automount usb drives
#Prevent sd?1 of the ipod from being mounted
KERNEL=="sd?1", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Apple*", ATTRS{product}=="iPod*", OPTIONS="last_rule"
KERNEL=="sd?2", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Apple*", ATTRS{product}=="iPod*", SYMLINK+="ipod", NAME="%k", GROUP="storage"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd?2", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Apple*", ATTRS{product}=="iPod*", RUN+="/bin/mount -t vfat -o rw,noauto,shortname=mixed,flush,dirsync,quiet,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,nodev,nosuid /dev/ipod /media/ipod"
#Automount flash drives to /media/usbdh-sd??
ACTION=="add", ATTRS{product}!="iPod*", KERNEL=="sd[b-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p /media/usbhd-%k"
KERNEL=="sd[b-z]", ATTRS{product}!="iPod*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="usbhd-%k", GROUP="storage"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[b-z][0-9]", ATTRS{product}!="iPod*", SYMLINK+="usbhd-%k", GROUP="storage", NAME="%k"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[b-z][0-9]", ATTRS{product}!="iPod*", RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p /media/usbhd-%k"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[b-z][0-9]", ATTRS{product}!="iPod*", RUN+="/bin/ln -s /media/usbhd-%k /mnt/usbhd-%k"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[b-z][0-9]", ATTRS{product}!="iPod*", PROGRAM=="/lib/udev/vol_id -t %N", RESULT=="vfat", RUN+="/bin/mount -t vfat -o rw,noauto,flush,dirsync,quiet,nodev,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,dmask=000,fmask=111 /dev/%k /media/usbhd-%k"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd[b-z][0-9]", ATTRS{product}!="iPod*", RUN+="/bin/mount -t auto -o rw,noauto,async,dirsync,nodev,noatime /dev/%k /media/usbhd-%k"
#Unmount everything on removal
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/rm -f /mnt/usbhd-%k"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/umount -l /dev/%k"
ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[a-z][0-9]", RUN+="/bin/rmdir /media/usbhd-%k"
Any ideas?
Thanks, Scott