What kernel are you running (uname -r)? You don't see a device 
corresponding to the writer at all? @cdrom is a link to the actual 
device for the cdrom, which is probably something along the lines 
of /dev/hda depending on the order in which the BIOS detected them. 

I know that back in the 2.4 kernel time frame if you had a ide burner
you needed to have ide-scsi emulation either compiled into the kernel
or loaded as a module. 2.6 kernels don't have that issue.

Do you see anything in dmesg output that identifies the drive. Perhaps
something like this:

Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: SONY DVD RW DRU-700A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: ASUS CD-S520/A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)



On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:20 -0700, Ray wrote:
> Hello all,
> I have a DVD writter that for the life of me i cannot get to show up. 
> When i check /mnt it has my cdrom drive but not the writter, so i ad it 
> to /etc/fstab and when i go to mount it it tells me the device does not 
> exist. I check /dev and sure enough to only option it cdrom@. How can i 
> add this device to /dev so i can use the danged thing.
> Thanks,
> Ray.
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