« on: July 21, 2017, 02:30:11 PM »
Tried it with different hard drives?
If you remove all the drives is there similar delay before the "insert disk" screen appears?
Very good advice.
Could be SMART issue with a drive's self test diagnostic taking a while to run, ie impending hard drive failure (Amigas don't report SMART problems as such).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
Not quite same thing as a drive validating. Helps if you can plug it into a later (non-Amiga) controller that does support SMART.

Logged
"To recurse is human. To iterate, divine."
A1200, Vanilla, Surf Squirrel, SD Card, KS 3.0/3.z, PCMCIA dev
A500, Vanilla, A570, Rev 5, KS 1.2/1.3 Testbench system
Rasp Pi, UAE4ARM, 3D laser scanner, experimental, hoping for AmigaOS4Arm, based on Watterott Fabscan Pi