It was a struggle to get it to start up on a 125 GB IDE HD connected via an Adaptec ATA-66 board - in OS 9.2. It still takes 2-3 minutes before it starts to load the system. I've tried it all: zapping PRAM, pressing CUDA, reinstalling etc ad nauseum. Biorn

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I had this problem with a 160GB drive on my G4 - it caused slow startups, wakeups and a few other problems. It turned out I had accidentally left the drive in "Slave" mode when it was the only drive in the machine. Moving the jumper back to "Master" solved everything. This is obvious I know but it's an easy mistake to make, so it is worth checking to make sure your drive is not in "Slave".