thath helped a bit

but theres still nothing seeing hdc (which is my dvd drive, as its the master on the second ide channel)

again, its not in /dev or/mnt as anything, and again, i dont know why since it worked a couple days ago, and nothing you guys have told me would have changed it :/

but when im booting and linux is loading, it mentions hda as my WD1200 drive and HDc as my lite-on dvd drive

grrr