Is my hard disk dying?

Hi all, Recently I've been seeing messages like this in kern.log: Oct 16 14:42:42 oasis kernel: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: DMA timeout error Oct 16 14:42:52 oasis kernel: hda: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }

nVidia GeForce2 MX

Hi all, I've been trying to get an nVidia GeForce2 MX card to work: :02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NVCrush11 [GeForce2 MX Integrated Graphics] (rev b1) First I tried the nvidia drivers, then the nv drivers. Nothing appears to work. The most baffling thing is that X is