External Firewire HD dead after iTunes 7 update - won't mount!

I have a pretty serious problem.
I have a 70gb music library that I keep on a Lacie Porsche 250gb external Firewire HD. The first time I ran iTunes 7, it gave me the spinning ball and locked up when "determining gapless information". I had to force quit iTunes.
A few hours later, the external drive started making a high pitched noise, and now it won't mount at all. It's also not visible in Disk Utility or Diskwarrior. I'm at a loss!
I have lots of very valuable information stored on my external drive, so I'm really hoping I can do something to revive it.
powerbook g4 500mhz Mac OS X (10.4.7)
powerbook g4 500mhz Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I recently had exactly the same problem with the 200GB model prior to the iTunes 7 update, so would concur that you're probably looking at a hardware quality issue. Thankfully the problems seem to be more related to power supply rather that the drive itself so you may be able to regain the data by swapping this over to a new external caddy as I did, but be wary of warranty issues.
Good luck ...

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