Hard drive going bad ...?

[Paul Michael Reilly]

The smartd daemon (Fedora Rawhide) is starting to indicate that the
hard drive has pending unreadable sectors:

Sep  3 08:01:43 roamer smartd[2032]: Device: /dev/hda, 9 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 

These have been occurring over the past few days on my (~3 year old)
A31p Thinkpad.  My first take is that the system is trying to tell me
that it is time to replace the hard drive.  Before ordering a new
drive, I figured I'd bounce this off the lists for second opinions.

Thanks,

-pmr