cd writer missing after F7 upgrade

[stan]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:39:57 -0600
Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:33:54 -0400
> Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> 
> > Frank Cox wrote:
> > > I just discovered that my CD writer (the only "removable drive"
> > > on this machine) is missing after updating from F6 to F7.  It's
> > > just a standard-issue 52x IDE cd burner.
> > > 
> > > How can I get it back?
> > > 
> > 
[snip]

You could try putting this in your fstab, changing the hdc to the
actual location of your device and adding the cdrw
directory in media.  Then mount /dev/hdc and umount /dev/hdc.

/dev/hdc /media/cdrw iso9660 users,noauto,ro,exec 0 0


Not a fix, a workaround.