I had this with a hard drive on my towered A1200 and a guy pointed me to a utility called ' SlowBoot ' .
http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/SlowBoot...The problem with buying a large IDE drive is that it has a long spun-up
time...
When booting from cold you have to bootup and then reboot...
SlowBoot fixes this
May help.
