Mac Mini and Smartdisk external drive

I just got around to connecting my Smartdisk external drive to my new Mini and I couldn't access it. Disk utilities came back with an Invalid Node Structure error. It says it can't fix it and I have no idea what is going on.
John

jraeyre wrote:
Invalid Node Structure error.
have a look @ [this|http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070204134513557] article.
JGG

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