External disk no longer works after notebook went to sleep

I have a one week old hard drive I'm using for Time Machine. It's a Seagate 5400 RPM 250GB notebook drive. It's connected via Firewire. The drive was working just fine until the notebook went to sleep -- when I woke it back up, there was an error on the screen saying "Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup directory." I tried power cycling the drive and the notebook but now all I get is "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer" and the only options it presents are Initialize, Ignore, and Eject. Obviously, Initialize is right out, as it contains my backups.
In "Disk Utility", when I choose "repair", I see:
Verify and Repair volume “disk1s3”
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Invalid B-tree node size
Volume check failed.
Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed.
I see the same thing when I choose "verify" (perhaps unsurprisingly). If it's unable to check the journal, is all hope lost? Is this something I should expect to happen periodically when the computer falls asleep?

I was thinking about it: actually, it may not have gone to sleep. The screen went blank, but the drive had power the whole time. (It has a blue LED that was on throughout).
Updated the Subject, although I don't know if that'll carry up to the index.

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