[OT] Faulty hard drive?

[Alex Polite <m2@plusseven.com>]

Last week I suffered something that was probably a hard drive
crash. I do extensive nightly backups so very little data was lost,
but the reinstallation on this sub notebook (no floppy, no cdrom) was
rather laborious.

During the reinstallation messages like these where spewed to the
console:
##################################################################
Oct  3 13:27:16 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Oct  3 13:27:16 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5523654, sector=2792604
Oct  3 13:27:16 matijek kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 2792604
Oct  3 13:27:31 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Oct  3 13:27:31 matijek kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=5523654, sector=2792604
Oct  3 13:27:31 matijek kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda), sector 2792604
##################################################################

I restarted the installation an went through a "check bad blocks on
device /dev/hda". This didn't report anything (as I can recall), and I
didn't get any more of these messages, until today when my box froze
for a minute or so and the stuff quoted above showed up in
/var/log/messages

Is this an indication that my hard drive is physically damaged and
that I can expect another crash unless I replace it with a new drive?

-- 
Alex Polite
http://plusseven.com/gpg