Is there no way to get SMART messages or logs on a Mac? It's 2004, way beyond wondering what a noise from a hard drive is. Every drive is smart enabled, scsi, ide etc. as long as it is enabled in the bios. Perhaps there is a terminal query which would give one an idea of what smart thinks about the drive. Each manufacturer also has a diagnostic program. Usually they are DOS based but they're only reading the drive, not the files so they may not be os-specific. I assume there are Linux/Unix based routines also.
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