[SOLVED] DVD rom now a CD rom ??

[mickle026]

I have Debian etch 4.0r5 installed on a ibm thinkpad r50e and everthing was fine until today.
I have only the default repositories enabled.

machine:
Intel Celeron M 1.4Ghz,
768Mb RAM, (with expansion)
40Gb HDD,
DVD-RW/CDRW,
WIFI etc.

I rebooted and now my dvd's dont read. The machine reports as being a cdrom not a dvdwriter in filemanager but, dmesg reports:
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: , ATAPI cdrom or floppy?, assuming FLOPPY drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

Any ideas how to fix this?

I am using Gnome 2.14.3 build on 15/2/07.

I also don't want any re-install suggestions because i have too much data on the machine for that (i do backup - but getting everything how you like takes forever)

I can follow most console suggestions

[mickle026]

shortly after posting - i found a fix

I installed libhd13 & hwinfo and rebooted, my drive is recognised again.

thanks.