where oh where is my optical drive?

[NewDisciple]

Nothing on my system sees my optical drive. K3b doesn't see it, wodim doesn't see it, also nothing when I run the following commands from the terminal: dmesg | tail , cd /dev ls. There is nothing in the /dev directory, nothing in media or mount. I also put a cd in it.
I haven't used it since I installed Lucid. Is this an item that requires a udev config edit? I looked at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input however I had trouble understanding it and I didn't see an example for optical drives anyway. I don't think you could do anything without a location or name anyhow.
Why did Ubuntu quit using hal?

[jtarin]

Are ther any entries in your /etc/fstab that refer to mounting an optical drive. Post it here.

[NewDisciple]

Nothing there, here it is:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=1309d4fb-535f-450d-a9f7-728202ee4ac4 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=f1cfe868-1d8c-454d-ab1e-688984b50e77 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=57906808-71a9-436d-a1d1-9abbc750e7dc none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[jtarin]

Do you have a floppy drive? No? Then comment it out.
#/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0Runt this command in the terminal and post the results.
eject -nif there is no output try adding sudo.

[NewDisciple]

I ran eject -n yesterday with no results. Ran it again today and got:
~$ eject -n
eject: device is `/dev/sr0'

However when I manually checked /dev I was unable to locate sr0.

[NewDisciple]

It is now showing up when I cd /dev and run ls. However wodim does not see any devices nor does kb3. Also tried an audio cd but it apparently was not seen either.

[NewDisciple]

I did two things. Made an entry into /etc/fstab then I shut my computer down and checked the Sata cables. Fired it back up and now I have my cdrom back. Don't know which action helped, I'm just glad that it works.