ok, the program to find superblocks is, not surprisingly, "findsuper", and it is on the resc1440 disk..
It tells me things like thisoff block fs_blk_sz blksz last_mount 26112 25 254653 0 Wed Sep 2 04:45:27 1998 2819072 2753 999299624 -705580337 Fri Feb 1 06:19:11 1918 now what do i do with this to get my partitions back? thanks rick