Ward is very right. I have seen drives where the customer has said that it had been reporting the same error for many months, with no noticeable problems. On the other hand, there are the drives where you only get to see that message once before you are out of luck.
Back up your data, and get a new drive A.S.A.P! The old drive is junk now. Brian O'Neal Webmaster ? We find detection so reliable that should Disk Utility or Disk Warrior indicate a S.M.A.R.T. failure, we replace the drive immediately - no questions asked. Ward Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 128 Breckenridge Lane Louisville, KY 40207 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us On May 31, 2005, at 9:17 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > 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> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050601/3bf6dcc2/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: lcssig.gif Type: image/gif Size: 7073 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050601/3bf6dcc2/attachment.gif
