CentOS - Nov 2009 - ATA error: hard drive going bad?

Hello all,

Probably a stupid question, but I'll ask the pros just to be sure. Time 
for a new hard drive?

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Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: ata1.01: exception Emask 0x40 SAct 0x0 
SErr 0x80800 action 0x6
Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: ata1: SError: { HostInt 10B8B }
Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: ata1.01: cmd 
a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0
Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel:          cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 
00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel:          res 
51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x40 (internal error)
Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: ata1.01: status: { DRDY ERR }
Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
Nov 16 17:35:43 weather3 kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 
SControl 300)
Nov 16 17:35:43 weather3 kernel: ata1.01: configured for UDMA/100
Nov 16 17:35:43 weather3 kernel: ata1: EH complete

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Probably a stupid question, but I'll ask the pros just to be sure. Time
> for a new hard drive?
Usually is when errors occur. You can get more information about drive's 
health using smartctl -a /dev/device

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Eero,
RHCE