help please? corrupted hard disc - invalid super block.

[Rob]

Hi!

I have a hard disc that I think must have been set up wrong initially...

It was however working fine, but at some point filled up to capacity, 
wherapon the next reboot it failed to mount.

System is 4.8-RELEASE, Generic Kernel.

Currently the disc shows:

luggage# mount -r /dev/ad5s1e /mnt
mount: /dev/ad5s1e on /mnt: incorrect super block

luggage# disklabel -r ad5
# /dev/ad5c:
type: ESDI
disk: ad5s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 14593
sectors/unit: 234441585
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
   c: 234436482        0    unused        0     0        # (Cyl.    0 - 14592*)
   e: 234436482        0    4.2BSD    16384 16384   300  # (Cyl.    0 - 14592*)
Warning, partition c doesn't cover the whole unit!
Warning, An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system 
utilities

luggage# fsck /dev/ad5s1e
Can't open /dev/ad5s1e: Invalid argument

luggage# fsck -b 32 /dev/ad5s1e
Alternate super block location: 32
Can't open /dev/ad5s1e: Invalid argument

luggage# file -s /dev/ad5s1e
/dev/ad5s1e: can't read `/dev/ad5s1e' (Invalid argument).



At this point I am stuck ... most of the "Invalid Super Block" messages I 
can find when searching relate to cd-roms.

If I could mount the disc even read-only, I could copy the data off.

Can anybody give me any clues on where to go from here?

Thanks in advance,

Rob