It turned out the label of the disk was corrupt - hence the error! After much deliberation and gathering all I could from those who replied to my initial SOS (thank you!) and the web, I decided to run format and then restore the backup label. After a reboot, the filesystem was again mountable and present by Veritas. BarbaraReceived on Sat Sep 22 04:45:17 2001
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