Unmountable external fire wire drive

Hello all!
I have a serious problem. I'v been reading these posts, but no luck with my issue.
I have a Maxtor 250GB external FireWire 1 hard drive with 3 partitions on it:
/dev/disk5
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Applepartitionscheme *232.9 Gi disk5
1: Applepartitionmap 31.5 Ki disk5s1
2: Apple_Driver43 28.0 Ki disk5s2
3: Apple_Driver43 28.0 Ki disk5s3
4: AppleDriverATA 28.0 Ki disk5s4
5: AppleDriverATA 28.0 Ki disk5s5
6: Apple_FWDriver 256.0 Ki disk5s6
7: AppleDriverIOKit 256.0 Ki disk5s7
8: Apple_Patches 256.0 Ki disk5s8
9: Apple_HFS KEPEK (100) 100.0 Gi disk5s10
10: Apple_HFS ZENE (50) 50.0 Gi disk5s12
11: Apple_HFS DATA (80) 82.5 Gi disk5s14
I am not sure, what happened, but as of yesterday, this drive will not mount:
~ diskutil mountDisk /dev/disk5
One or more volume(s) failed to mount
I have tried to use DiskUtility, and the disk verification is OK on all partitions. I am, however, still unable to mount this drive.
I have successfully created a DiskImage using the DiskUtility, and I get the following error message when trying to mount the image:
Unable to attach "KEPEK (100)/dmg". (no mountable file systems)
Please, help me! I have a bunch of irreplaceable family photos on this drive, and I would like to recover them if it is possible.
All suggestions, advice, and help will be greatly appreciated!
THX all: Thot

Unable to attach "KEPEK (100)/dmg". (no mountable file systems)
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Trash the contents (not the folder) of System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches folder, and the System/Library/Extensions.mkext file. Empty the trash and restart.
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