> My question is, is this a sure sign of a hardware problem or could this
> be a bug in the ide drivers? And if it's a hardware problem, is it more
> likely to be the disk controller (which is on-board) or the disk?
In my experience, it's a sign of impending drive failure. I advise
replacing that hard drive as soon as possible. I have never seen these
messages caused by a bad controller.
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