System crash from hard drive

Hey all,
I've got a problem when i plug in my firewire drive to my new MBP. It gives me the grey curtain of death. I've tried doing the usual like PVRAM and the PMU settings.
It started when I was trying to add a partition to the drive using disk utility. It got 90% of the way through and i got the curtain of death.
I've tried booting in Safe mode which won't appear to load, even after about 5 mins. I've tried booting of the CD, but when I plug the drive back in it just crashes again.
Basically I'd like to be able to stop it mounting so I can access it from the disk utility and try a repair. Failing that, a straight format.
Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance
Here is the error report:
Tue Dec 2 00:46:15 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001F9314): "jnl: mod block start: bufsize 512 not a multiple of block size 4096\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228.8.30/bsd/vfs/vfs_journal.c:2282
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2a3cb2a8 : 0x12b4c9 (0x45aaac 0x2a3cb2dc 0x1335ba 0x0)
0x2a3cb2f8 : 0x1f9314 (0x46c084 0x200 0x1000 0x0)
0x2a3cb348 : 0x332719 (0x4595d10 0x2bd46c30 0x0 0x200)
0x2a3cb3e8 : 0x33bb5c (0x6037804 0x1 0x0 0x2a3cb778)
0x2a3cb7a8 : 0x334123 (0x6037804 0x476e804 0x0 0x0)
0x2a3cb8b8 : 0x335b8b (0x0 0x60459a4 0x0 0x0)
0x2a3cb9a8 : 0x1f5c6e (0x4e5b260 0x6cd7510 0xbffffdd4 0x0)
0x2a3cb9f8 : 0x1df3e8 (0x4e5b260 0x6cd7510 0xbffffdd4 0x0)
0x2a3cbf28 : 0x1dfaa9 (0x4e8804c 0x2a3cbf48 0x60458e4 0x1)
0x2a3cbf78 : 0x3df09b (0x4e8804c 0x60458a0 0x60458e4 0x0)
0x2a3cbfc8 : 0x1a0767 (0x5c738c0 0x0 0x1a30b5 0x5c738c0)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffffe28
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mount_hfs
Mac OS version:
9F2114
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.1: Fri Sep 19 16:19:24 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.8.30~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro5,1 (Mac-F42D86C8)

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