No /dev/scd?, No access to USB dvdrw

["Thomas H. George" <xyz@spininternet.com>]

With kernel 2.4.26 my Sony USB dvdrw drive is at /dev/sr1.

With kernel 2.6.8 there is no /dev/sr1 and the drive is not accessable 
although lsusb knows the device is there.

cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV -v scd reports creating scd? devices with symlinks to 
them from sr? but after this is run ls /dev does not show any entries 
for scd and sr.

Please help.

Tom George