Mount: special device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 does not exist

Question

I am new to Arch--so far I'm very happy with it (past experience is mostly Red Hat, Fedora, and Debian).  I do have a couple of remaining problems, and I'm trying to put my questions in the appropriate forums for each one.
I am having a problem, where I do not have entries in /dev for my dvd/cd combo drive.
/etc/fstab:
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
dmesg:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:09.0
NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE2: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
NFORCE2: 0000:00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-5232K, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:01:0b.0
SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
SiI3112 Serial ATA: 100% native mode on irq 201
ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hde: ST3120026AS, ATA DISK drive
ide2 at 0xf889f080-0xf889f087,0xf889f08a on irq 201
hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
hdg: no response (status = 0xfe), resetting drive
hdg: no response (status = 0xfe)
Notice I have SATA (the hdg: no response thing takes forever to time out--don't know what it thinks it's finding there, but that isn't my primary problem).  My combo drive is hda, and it worked fine during install.
I've searched a long time in the forums, and could only find one post which seemed similar:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … ght=devfsd
but that is from a long time ago, and I didn't understand what the solution actually was 
If I look at /dev/ide, I don't see anything except for my SATA drive:
|-- hd
| |-- c2b0t0u0 -> ../host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
| |-- c2b0t0u0p1 -> ../host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
| |-- c2b0t0u0p10 -> ../host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part10
| |-- c2b0t0u0p2 -> ../host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
| |-- c2b0t0u0p5 -> ../host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
| |-- c2b0t0u0p6 -> ../host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
| |-- c2b0t0u0p7 -> ../host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
| |-- c2b0t0u0p8 -> ../host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part8
| `-- c2b0t0u0p9 -> ../host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part9
`-- host2
`-- bus0
`-- target0
`-- lun0
|-- disc
|-- part1
|-- part10
|-- part2
|-- part5
|-- part6
|-- part7
|-- part8
`-- part9
At this point I'm not sure what to try.  There is no /dev/cdroms directory at all.
I do have:
[root@strongbad dev]# ls -l cdrom
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Jun 9 23:08 cdrom -> /dev/hda
[root@strongbad dev]# ls -l /dev/hda
ls: /dev/hda: No such file or directory
I did not make any links by hand--I'm devfs ignorant  :oops:
Can anyone help me out?

Answer 1

I do have:
Code:
[root@strongbad dev]# ls -l cdrom
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 8 Jun  9 23:08 cdrom -> /dev/hda
[root@strongbad dev]# ls -l /dev/hda
ls: /dev/hda: No such file or directory
Hmmm..this is bizzare, where'd the symlink come from if it points to a nonexistent file?
Also, have you tried just mounting /dev/cdrom (probably wont work..but hey). Let's see, what else, /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hda, but 2.6 kernels dont really use that anymore, instead they use /dev/discs/discX/partY . So maybe even try mounting /dev/discs/disc0/part1 (or something along those lines) . Play around with that and see what happens...make sure you're trying it with a disc in the drive (i've done sillier things and wondered for days about it).