My wife's G4 iMac has been freezing up and exhibiting other aberrent behavior recently. I originally thought it might be because I just installed Tiger on it, but tonight I tried to run Disk Utility and noticed, first, that the name of the hard drive and volume were displayed in red. When I select either of them, I get a message saying that the S.M.A.R.T. feature has detected a "failing" hard drive and to back up any important documents -- which, of course, I promptly did.
This is my first encounter with one of these S.M.A.R.T. messages. Are they generally accurate? Are there any conditions that might generate this message other than a true drive failure? In other words, is it definitely time to order a new hard drive, or are there some tricks I might try on this one first? Dan | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
