Hi,

> Next to a hardware power supply replacement I can't use anymore the
> CDROM drive.I am running Mandrake 8.2 and the CDROM is mounted at boot
> with le following line:

> [root@dev]# grep cdrom /etc/fstab
> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660
> ro,iocharset=iso8859-15,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0

> When I try to list either /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc I have the message :

> [root@dev]# ll /dev/hdc
> ls: /dev/hdc: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
> [root@dev]# ll /dev/cdrom
> ls: /dev/cdrom: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type

> How can I restore this device file? and what should I do?

Sorry, I don't speak french, so I don't understand the error messages.
But one thing for sure: You don't list the device files. Instead, you do

$ mount /mnt/cdrom
$ ls /mnt/cdrom

and there the contents of the files will appear, not in the device
files (which will rather be an abstract representation of the cdrom as
total).

So long,
Thomas