Long wait on Startup and Hard Disk not found

Hi. I don't know if these problems are related to each other, but they both showed up at the same time. I upgraded to Mountain Lion recently, and these appeared after that.
I'm getting a long wait on startup (before I can select my username), which seems to be related to this timeout in system.log
Aug 16 13:26:29 point configd[18]: InterfaceNamer: timed out waiting for IOKit to quiesce
Aug 16 13:26:29 point configd[18]: Busy services :
Aug 16 13:26:29 point configd[18]:   MacPro3,1 [1, 80583 ms]
Aug 16 13:26:29 point configd[18]:   MacPro3,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert [1, 80461 ms]
Aug 16 13:26:29 point configd[18]:   MacPro3,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0 [1, 80436 ms]
Aug 16 13:26:29 point configd[18]:   MacPro3,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI [1, 80427 ms]
Aug 16 13:26:29 point configd[18]:   MacPro3,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2 [1, 80349 ms]
Aug 16 13:26:29 point configd[18]:   MacPro3,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI [1, 60820 ms]
Aug 16 13:26:29 point configd[18]:   MacPro3,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT3@ 3 [1, 60366 ms]
Aug 16 13:26:29 point configd[18]:   MacPro3,1/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT3@ 3/IOAHCIDevice@0 [!matched, 1, 60366 ms]
Also, hard drive I just bought (in "Bay 4", that is to say, port 3 in internal 0-based numbers) claimed to have been "ejected improperly" during a clone (using Restore from Disk Utility) and now doesn't show up, even in /dev/, although it is visible as "Unknown" in System Information. (It was visible for a few days before this.)

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Follow the steps listed in the below link
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and-Software/quot-Hard-Disk-3F0-BootDevice-n...
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