System crash, now a disk is missing. how to recover?

was just transferring files from one disk to another while opening a final cut project from a third disk. during the process a gray curtain closed from top to bottom of my screen witha message that somethiing serious had happened and that i needed to restart my system by holding the power button in.
i did the hard shutdown. i then restarted. everything is normal except that the disk with the final cut material on it did not mount, or so it seems.
i opened disk utility and the disk does appear there. it seems to have no partition info, though. the volume name is missing. i looked to mount it, just to see what the options might be, but the mount button is gray. i tried the eject button and, after a short wait, got the message that it could not be ejected and to make sure nothing was using it or something like that.
at this point i figured it would be prudent to stop and look into what recovery options there might be. so...
anybody got any tips as to this sort of data recovery/disk repair on a mac?
thanks,
BabaG

Classic kernel panic. See
What is a kernel panic,
Technical Note TN2063: Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics,
Mac OS X Kernel Panic FAQ,
Resolving Kernel Panics, and
Tutorial: Avoiding and eliminating Kernel panics for more details.

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