i was able to get this much on a reeetry of gpart

knoppix@2[knoppix]$ sudo gpart /dev/hde

Begin scan...

* Warning: short read near sector(2482137), 53248 bytes instead of 66048. Skipping...

* Warning: read error (EIO) near sector(2482241), skipping...

itt has not changed from this in the last 10-15 minutes