I was loading Tiger onto an eMac. I booted off the external drive and opened Disk Utility and noticed the internal hard drive was red, and SMART status reported it was failing.

I rebooted, and now the hard drive's SMART status is "Not Supported". It's a Maxtor 2F040L0, and the Tiger disk image is copying over right now.

Should I trust this drive or chuck it out?

Edit: Tiger disk copied fine, checksummed fine, and booted fine. SMART status is now Verified.