iPod iPod Classic 80Gb, hard drive busted?

[Cue]

Hi there,

I've been using my iPod as a disk drive for quite some years now, only now it seems that there is something wrong with the hard drive.

While trying to transfer some files (disk use) it seems like it's stuck after a random amount of bytes written.

It's currently sitting at 19.76Gb of 38.05Gb - About 19 minutes (now showing 22 minutes)

I also did a restore from iTunes and an erase using GUID from Disk Utility.

Here are the latest entries from dmesg

jnl: disk1s2: journal start/end pointers reset! (jnl 0x5696e04; s 0x4cb000 e 0x4cb000)
jnl: disk1s2: journal start/end pointers reset! (jnl 0x5696e04; s 0x687000 e 0x687000)
jnl: disk1s2: journal start/end pointers reset! (jnl 0x5696e04; s 0x3ea000 e 0x3ea000)
disk1s2: alignment error.
disk1s2: alignment error.
disk1s2: alignment error.
disk1s2: alignment error.
jnl: disk1s2: journal start/end pointers reset! (jnl 0x5696e04; s 0x786000 e 0x786000)
USBMSC Identifier (non-unique): 000A2700133DDFD8 0x5ac 0x1261 0x1
jnl: disk1s2: journal start/end pointers reset! (jnl 0x5696e04; s 0x7b2000 e 0x7b2000)
hfs: Initializing the journal (joffset 0x253000 sz 0x800000)...
disk1s2: alignment error.
disk1s2: alignment error.
USBF: 1729.451 AppleUSBEHCI[0x553c000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0x24, timing out! (Addr: 3, EP: 3)
USBF: 1760.454 AppleUSBEHCI[0x553c000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0x24, timing out! (Addr: 3, EP: 2)
disk1s2: I/O error.
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [ErrType IO] [ErrNo 5] [IOType Read] [PBlkNum 747234] [LBlkNum 296] [FSLogMsgID 1204487319] [FSLogMsgOrder First]
0 [Level 3] [ReadUID 0] [Facility com.apple.system.fs] [DevNode /dev/disk1s2] [MountPt /Volumes/eu] [Path /Volumes/eu/Documents/devoxx/D8_C_10_06_03.pdf] [FSLogMsgID 1204487319] [FSLogMsgOrder Last]
USBF: 1851.461 AppleUSBEHCI[0x553c000]::Found a transaction past the completion deadline on bus 0x24, timing out! (Addr: 3, EP: 2)

Thanks for any advice!

 

[Cue]

I'm amazed that there is no answer not even at the Apple forums.

I've also been told from an AAR that Apple presumably doesn't fix iPods!
So any ideas where to give it out for a repair?