Seems to be an IDE CD-ROM: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2002-01-01 01:01 /dev/cdrom -> hdd But the Laptop is SATA-based (that is, the harddisk is /dev/sda). -- optical medias are invisible with kde 3.5.4 on edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/57170