My PowerBook woes have been diagnosed by the mighty Tiger. I formatted the hard drive and dropped Tiger on my PowerBook. Then what to my wondering eyes should appear but a red disk and S.M.A.R.T. Status: failing when I fired up Disk Utility.

Apple’s been a bit behind the curve on adding IDE S.M.A.R.T. status information where the user can see it.

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Last modified on 2005-04-30