[H-GEN] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide1(22,1)

[Geoff Shang]

>> /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1: data
>>
>> This would seem to confirm your theory.
>
> It would.  I really hope you have not run fsck on this.  I still think
> that the filesystem signature is corrupt, which probably does not bode
> well for the data, or that the filesystem is very corrupt and just needs
> a check run on an alternative superblock---Rob's advice on this is
> correct.

Well I dd'd the partition to a file, after having made space for it, and 
ran e2fsck on it, and now it seems to be fine.  It did find quite a few 
errors but managed to deal with them somehow.

So all looks good with the world.

Thanks to everyone for their advice.

Geoff.