Help! fsck.ext2 possibly non-existent!??! <= that's my data!

[bronto]

I have tried to run pdisk on it to see if it has any partitions, but 
it reports that there is no such device or address.  I am now going 
to attempt to determine whether the drive is actually running. 
shutting down ...


>Looks like I've got myself a serious problem here.
>
>YellowDog 2.2 on a Beige G3.  It has three hard disks; a small Mac 
>one for booting the Mac into OS9, a 4GB drive with all of the YDL 
>stuff on it, and a new 60GB drive I installed last month just for 
>data.  The 60gb drive is mounted at /home.  Or is supposed to be. 
>Until now has worked flawlessly.
>
>I was working happily along on one of my web sites, hosted on this 
>YDL Mac, when I started getting strange errors.  Data stuff.  I went 
>over to the server and tried to log out of my normal user account, 
>and the thing just freaked out and froze.  I rebooted the server, 
>and when it came time to mount the data drive, I get this error:
>
>Checking filesystems
>fsck.ext2: Possibly non-existent or swap device?
>No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hdb2	[FAILED]
>
>*** an error occurred during the file system check.
>
>Then it gives me an option to drop into repair mode.  I do so, open 
>fstab with VI, remove the line for /dev/hdb2, reboot, and everything 
>is operational except for Apache (which opens files on the data 
>drive), and of course my /home directory isn't there.
>
>the Big Question:  Now what?  How do I figure out what happened, and 
>how do I fix it?
>
>Anyone?  Please?
>
>Rob
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