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>> Is there any way to restore the data from that drive?
>
> Yes - but the cost may depend on how/why it is broken!

In my case I managed to get off cheap:-) I was hinted that there might be
a backup of the disklabel in /var/backups/work. Indeed there was, I then
corrected the drives disklabel and hey presto! I have no idea whatsoever
on what could have screwed it up in the first place. Maybe now would be a
good time to back up the data..

Thanks to everyone involved!

-- 
Jussi Teppo
justepp@cc.jyu.fi