You will be pleased to hear that most of the problem was a failed bus in the power supply. That meant insufficient power to spin up the disks. A bad sector in one of the inode tables means I've wound up with a few hundred files in /lost+found but the box boots and DNS, DHCP, Apache all run.
It must be time to upgrade Slackware 9 to Slackware 13.37 and mirror all the data. Or even invest in a new box with hardware RAID.
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