Dread and the fugitive mind - things you never want to see in a syslog report

Here are some of the messages of the impending doom of the hard drive on the server:

WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
Buffer I/O error on device hdc1, ...: 10 Time(s)
EXT3-fs error (device hdc1) in ...: 1 Time(s)
EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): e ...: 33 Time(s)
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector ...: 187 Time(s)
hdc: DMA timeout error ...: 1 Time(s)
hdc: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 { B ...: 1 Time(s)
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { Uncorrect ...: 1 Time(s)
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ...: 1 Time(s)
lost page write due to I/O error on hdc1 ...: 10 Time(s)

/dev/hdc :
Prefailure: Seek_Time_Performance (8) changed to 245, 246, 247, 248

Currently unreadable (pending) sectors detected:
/dev/hdc - 32 Time(s)
1 unreadable sectors detected

Offline uncorrectable sectors detected:
/dev/hdc - 32 Time(s)
1 offline uncorrectable sectors detected

By the time I was able to log in, the drive had tanked.