FC3 and Drive Errors

[mylar]

Hi,

I am running Fedora Core 3 on a Dell Dimension 4700 desktop. It's a dual
boot machine. Windows resides on a 80 Gb SATA drive and Linux on a
regular 200 Gb ATA IDE drive attached to the PATA controller. When
running FC3 the system has been working fine for well over a year but of
late has been freezing up every now and  then. Everytime it freezes and
I go over the system logs I am seeing the following drive errors
occuring just prior to the system crashing...


> Sep 18 04:02:20 brooklyn kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Sep 18 04:02:20 brooklyn kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84
> { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> Sep 18 04:02:20 brooklyn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> Sep 18 04:02:20 brooklyn kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Sep 18 04:02:20 brooklyn kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84
> { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> Sep 18 04:02:20 brooklyn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> Sep 18 04:02:20 brooklyn kernel: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
> SeekComplete Error }
> Sep 18 04:02:20 brooklyn kernel: hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84
> { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
> Sep 18 04:02:20 brooklyn kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown

Any ideas what might be going on ? Is the drive going bad on me ? 
I am going to doi a check for bad blocks and see what happens. Any  other ideas,
hints, suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

Mylar