[arch-general] /etc/fstab :no ext. hdd

[Preston C.]

I hope that this is not to much of  a noob question, but since I
started using Arch I haven't been able to access my external hard
drive through KDE. I posted on the forums about the problem but it
seems that the other people who had the problem, had the problem in a
different way. My problem is I can access my cdrom drive through the
desktop but cannot access my external hdd. When I try to I get an
error message concerning HAL Permission Policy. So I read back through
The Beginners Guide and two things came to mind- user 'groups' and
/etc/fstab.

In /etc/fstab these are the devices that show:

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

No external hdd? Also, why are there two cdrom devices when I only
have 1 cd drive and 1 dvd drive?

I was wondering if the external hdd doesn't exist in /etc/fstab
because I did not add it as a 'group' (which I think I did) or for
some other reason? Supposedly I could use HAL, in some way- although I
would rather have the external hdd in /etc/fstab. How do I get the
external hdd to exist in /etc/fstab , which I think it should?

Thanks,
Preston