smartd stalls the system on reboot

["Mark Hull-Richter" <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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