Blaine, Chad, and jp thanks for the tips. I just put a # infront the single line in the .conf file and it worked like a charm. If I get some free time I will check the logs to see if my hard disk is dieing or not (Hopefully thats not the case as I just bought it).
thanks again,
Bruce
From: Chad Kempt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bruce Nik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] smartd startup problem
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 23:59:19 -0400
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smartd uses the smart technology on the hard drives to monitor for failure. On the VMWARE machine the drive was most likely mounted as SDA1 or some such thing (sata/scsi which isn't supported by smartd). On the IBM you most likely have SCSI or IDE (IDE I'm assuming) and if SMART monitoring is enabled in the bios it should pass with a OK no problem. Could you elaborate on that a bit?
I'm pretty sure it wouldn't hurt anything to disable it, but I'll let someone else give that advice.
Chad
Bruce Nik wrote:
>Hello everyone,
> I have installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.8 on a 933
>MHz IBM NetVista with 256 RAM (No VMware). Everything is fine except
>for when the system starts it pauses for about 10 minutes on
>"smartd" test (whatever that is). Finally, it passes with "Ok" but
>it's really annoying waiting for the machineto boot up in like 15
>minutes. I used to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with
>vmware (Win XP) and smartd would simply fail and wouldn't take time
>at all. Still, this IBM system is pretty fast for Asterisk so the
>speed shouldn't be a problem.
> 1- Does anyone know what "smartd" is? How can I fix it?
> 2- There are so many checks that [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> does when it restarts, how can I configure it
>so that it just loads neccessary things rather than doing so many
>checks (e.g. check for new hardware, load ztdummy, etc.....)
> Thanks,
>Bruce
>
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