Upgraded to 10.4 - now my external hard drive sounds like a blender.

Hi -
I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I have a new LaCie external drive that I keep all my important files on. One of the reasons I bought this drive was because it's extremely quiet and shuts itself down after a few minutes not in use. I just upgraded to 10.4 last night and when I came in this morning, the hard drive now sounds like a kitchen disposal with a spoon stuck in it -- an obnoxious loud clanking comes from it at all times whether it computer is accessing it or not. Anyone know how to fix this or even hear of ths issue? It's extremely annoying.

Actually, it seems to have stopped now completely and is working fine. Weird. I was exagerrating about bit with the blender remark, but it's a new drive so I can't imagine it would fail that suddenly, especially with the change of OS.

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