I have inherited a Beige G3 Minitower with 2 IDE hard drives, one is ~20 Gb while the other is ~30 Gb. On one is MacOS 9.2 while on the other is MacOS 8.6. The issue is that boot ups are very slow almost like the machine is searching for a startup disk. The system is maxed out insofar as installed RAM is concerned and both HDs have been thoroughly diagnosed and optimized using Disk Warrior and other disk utilities. Each drive is connected separately to one of the two IDE plugs on the motherboard. One shares this with the CD-ROM drive while the other doesn't share via its IDE cable. Is this the correct configuration for two IDE drives? Just wondering what is causing such intolerably slow (up to 1 minute or more) boot ups when the start up disk has been specifically selected under control panels. The slow start up happens no matter whether it is the OS 8.6 or the 9.2 system disk which is selected. I do have a Rev. B card in the machine if that's an issue which I don't think it should be. Thanks for all help!
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