[ltp] Is my HD dying?

[Jeffrey Taylor]

Lately I'm seeing the errors below when doing backups to an external USB
disk.  Is this an indication that the internal HD is going bad?   This is on a
T41.

TIA,
  Jeffrey

an 25 20:59:23 odysseus kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Jan 25 20:59:23 odysseus kernel: ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
Jan 25 20:59:23 odysseus kernel: ata1.00: cmd c8/00:00:b7:32:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 131072 in
Jan 25 20:59:23 odysseus kernel:          res 51/40:12:a5:33:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Jan 25 20:59:23 odysseus kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Jan 25 20:59:23 odysseus kernel: ata1: EH complete
Jan 25 20:59:29 odysseus kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Jan 25 20:59:29 odysseus kernel: ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
Jan 25 20:59:29 odysseus kernel: ata1.00: cmd c8/00:00:b7:32:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 131072 in
Jan 25 20:59:29 odysseus kernel:          res 51/40:12:a5:33:c1/00:00:00:00:00/e3 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Jan 25 20:59:29 odysseus kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
Jan 25 20:59:29 odysseus kernel: ata1: EH complete
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