Is my drive failing?

[James Pifer]

I started having problems with my laptop last night. Thought it had
something to do with a wireless card I was messing with, but now I don't
think so. I'm seeing this in /var/log/messages:

Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: hdc: tray open
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
block 0
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
block 1
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
block 2
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
block 3
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
block 4
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
block 5
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
block 6
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
block 7
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
block 8
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical
block 9
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: hdc: tray open
Sep 28 07:10:53 laptop kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0
Sep 28 07:12:09 laptop su(pam_unix)[4320]: session opened for user root
by (uid=500)
Sep 28 08:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[5570]: session opened for user
root by (uid=0)
Sep 28 08:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[5570]: session closed for user
root
Sep 28 09:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[6109]: session opened for user
root by (uid=0)
Sep 28 09:01:01 laptop crond(pam_unix)[6109]: session closed for user
root
Sep 28 09:29:59 laptop kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
Sep 28 09:30:42 laptop kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21

Is my drive failing? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
James