hard drive dieing? Beeps every 30 minutes or so, are there..

Im generally a PC guy, so I don't know my why around Macs too well.
I have G4 with OS X 10.4.5 installed.

Recently I've been hearing what sounds like the drive clicking, and a
beep, coming from my system every 30 minutes or so... Is there any disk
diag tool? Or logs that would record possible error when the drive
cycles? Could this be something else?

Thanks.

Joe

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:10:52 -0500, jfk RemoveThis @xsportstv.net wrote
(in article ):

> Im generally a PC guy, so I don't know my why around Macs too well.
> I have G4 with OS X 10.4.5 installed.
>
> Recently I've been hearing what sounds like the drive clicking, and a
> beep, coming from my system every 30 minutes or so... Is there any disk
> diag tool?

Several. Including free SMART drive diagnostics. Version Tracker is your
friend.

> Or logs that would record possible error when the drive
> cycles? Could this be something else?

Could be, but I'd back up everything while checking things out if I were you.

>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe
>



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