[COLUG] Hardware Failure or FS Corruption

[Jess Balint]

Hi all -

I've got a firewire hard drive with an NTFS partition. The drive uses 
the SBP2 DRiver and is mounted NTFS read only. I'm getting errors like 
this in log/messages:

Jul  1 18:05:51 fatmouse kernel: NTFS-fs error (device sda3): 
ntfs_end_buffer_async_read(): Buffer I/O error, logical block 6291519.
Jul  1 18:05:51 fatmouse kernel: NTFS-fs error (device sda3): 
map_mft_record_page(): Failed with error code 5.
Jul  1 18:05:51 fatmouse kernel: NTFS-fs error (device sda3): 
map_mft_record(): Failed with error code 5.
Jul  1 18:05:51 fatmouse kernel: NTFS-fs error (device sda3): 
ntfs_read_locked_inode(): Failed with error code 5. Marking inode 0x1c 
as bad.
Jul  1 18:05:51 fatmouse kernel: scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device

Is this a hardware failure or a corrupt filesystems? Any thoughts would 
be great. Thanks.

~ Jess