floppy disk hardware failure ?

[Lee Harr]

Hi;

Recently, trying to use my floppy disk drive, I started getting messages 
like this:


May 28 10:20:21 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 
40<abnrml> ST1 1<no_am> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1)
May 28 10:20:24 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ST0 
40<abnrml> ST1 1<no_am> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1)
May 28 10:22:46 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 of 0-1 (ST0 
40<abnrml> ST1 1<no_am> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1)
May 28 10:42:19 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-1 (ST0 
40<abnrml> ST1 1<no_am> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1)
May 28 10:45:05 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-1 (ST0 
40<abnrml> ST1 1<no_am> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1)
May 28 11:00:28 tern /kernel: fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-1 (ST0 
40<abnrml> ST1 1<no_am> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 1)


Is this a hardware problem?  I get the same thing with all disks I have 
tried.

Thank you for your time.

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