CentOS - Apr 2007 - smartd stalls the system on reboot

I have begun to notice that the smartd stalls my machine's boot process for
as much as 2-3 minutes while it is coming up.  I have the BIOS SMART
function enabled, and I removed the bad SG400GB drive from the box
yesterday, but I think this goes back farther than that.

Why does it take so long?  Is the BIOS SMART involved in this (and how)?

Also, sendmail and sm-client take 30s-2m to come up as well (not always, but
usually).

Config:
CentOS 4.4 Plus (2.6.9-42.0.10 kernel)
AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+
ECS NFORCE4M-A m/b
2GB OCZ DDR2 800 (PC6400) ram
160MB + 120MB Maxtor PATA drives (160 is the boot drive)
300GB Seagate SATA drive (/boot and / are here)
geFORCE7100sg (nVidia) PCI-E x16 video card
Minolta QMS PagePro 1100 laser printer on /dev/lp0

Thanks.

Mark Hull-Richter, Linux Kernel Engineer
DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com)
85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA  92656
949-680-3082 - Office     949-330-7691 - fax
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Mark Hull-Richter spake the following on 4/18/2007 10:59
AM:
> I have begun to notice that the smartd stalls my machine's boot process
> for as much as 2-3 minutes while it is coming up.  I have the BIOS SMART
> function enabled, and I removed the bad SG400GB drive from the box
> yesterday, but I think this goes back farther than that.
> 
> Why does it take so long?  Is the BIOS SMART involved in this (and how)?
> 
The smart bios option is usually only to give you an error message on boot.
Sendmail start delays are usually related to name resolution, and can
sometimes be related to entries in /etc/hosts.
Do you have an sata controller that isn't supported with smartd?


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