External Firewire Drive Has Now Showing mounting with Intilize

i have a seagate 1tb external firewire drive. its been working and has about 500gigs of info on it. today it is showing up as a unformatted drive. disk warrior is not seeing it. is there another program that could repair maybe tech tool or any other suggestions
thanks

If Disk Warrior won't see it.....ouch.
Data Rescue II is good, but again, if DW won't see, it might be toast, sorry.
As well, here is Apple doc.#88338 on getting FireWire to work.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1317?viewlocale=en_US
...perhaps it is a bus issue and the drive itself is ok. Do you have another computer/cable etc. to test it with...

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