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.
<br><br>Why does it take so long?&nbsp; Is the BIOS SMART involved in this (and how)?<br><br>Also, sendmail and sm-client take 30s-2m to come up as well (not always, but usually).<br><br>Config:<br>CentOS 4.4 Plus (2.6.9-42.0.10
 kernel)<br>AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+<br>ECS NFORCE4M-A m/b<br>2GB OCZ DDR2 800 (PC6400) ram<br>160MB + 120MB Maxtor PATA drives (160 is the boot drive)<br>300GB Seagate SATA drive (/boot and / are here)<br>geFORCE7100sg (nVidia) PCI-E x16 video card
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