help! can i recover my data?

[Robert La Ferla]

Is it possible for me to recover my data?  I saw errors in the logs  
(see below) and tried fscking the drive (see part of the log below -  
in the middle of this email) and then now when I try to fsck I get this:


Current situation:

# fsck /dev/sdc1
fsck 1.40.6 (09-Feb-2008)
e2fsck 1.40.6 (09-Feb-2008)
fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short  
read while trying to open /dev/sdc1
Could this be a zero-length partition?



Previous attempts at fsck:



# fsck /dev/sdc1
fsck 1.40.6 (09-Feb-2008)
e2fsck 1.40.6 (09-Feb-2008)
Superblock has an invalid ext3 journal (inode 8).
Clear<y>? yes

*** ext3 journal has been deleted - filesystem is now ext2 only ***

/dev/sdc1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Error reading block 65538 (Attempt to read block from filesystem  
resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan.  Ignore  
error<y>? yes

Force rewrite<y>? yes

Error reading block 65539 (Attempt to read block from filesystem  
resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan.  Ignore  
error<y>? yes

Force rewrite<y>? yes

...
....


I was getting these errors:

98/00:00:39:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in
          res 51/40:00:11:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/f0 Emask 0x9 (media  
error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { UNC }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x181c8109
ata5.00: cmd 25/00:40:0f:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in
          res 51/40:00:11:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/f0 Emask 0x9 (media  
error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { UNC }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x181c8109
ata5.00: cmd 25/00:40:0f:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in
          res 51/40:00:11:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/f0 Emask 0x9 (media  
error)
ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata5.00: error: { UNC }
ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata5: EH complete
ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata5.00: BMDMA2 stat 0x181c8109
ata5.00: cmd 25/00:40:0f:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in
          res 51/40:00:11:5c:98/00:00:39:00:00/f0 Emask 0x9 (media  
error)