After becoming so proud of myself to get debian up and running perfectly under 2.4, i update to 2.6 and everything goes downhill. My other SATA drive (sdb) and both my CD-ROMS (hda + hdb) cease to exist in /dev. ...which means i cant mount them:

mount /media/cdrom0 (which has an entry in fstab under /dev/hda) outputs:
mount: special device /dev/hda does not exist

Sure enough, there is no trace of hda, hdb, or sdb in /dev. WTF?

Yes, i do have automount enabled (with gnome-volume-manager installed), but that does not make a difference.

People had this same problem, but i could not find a fix. Sorry if this post is a redundant topic.

Any help would be appreciated.


EDIT!!!
http://kerneltrap.org/node/3971#comment-12554
- Brilliant fix. Disregard everything i wrote 5 minutes ago
Now if only i can get my velocityget.ko to actually work...