Steve
I have looked deeper at the issue of audio cd's on cdwriters, and have tried 
it out myself with devfs enabled just like you have.

I found that with devfs enabled it will automatically set up /dev/cdrom to 
point to the /dev/cdroms directory. 
If you delete it, it comes back again a second later.
 
The second thing I tried was configuring kscd to look directly at 
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd  which is what devfs names the SCSI 
interface on your cdwriter. But that causes kscd to crash. 

So the only conclusion I have is to say that if you want to play audio CD's 
on your cdwriter you will have to disable devfs. This is not such a bad 
thing, since in my experience Cdwriters cannot 
record with devfs enabled. (well my one cannot) (You can test that with 
'cdrecord -scanbus' 
entered in a root terminal.)
 
To disable devfs edit as root /etc/lilo.conf where it says "devfs=mount" 
change this to "devfs=nomount"
 Then rerun lilo with the command as root '/sbin/lilo' (check there were no 
error messages before trying to reboot)
 
reboot your computer
 
Now in your devfs directory you should have a device /dev/scd0 Make a link 
to here from /dev/cdrom
 
ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
 
Your audio discs should now work.....let me know if it works..

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