Help! Secondary IDE drive slows my system down

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From: Bart
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:00

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Hello.  I have an Intel Endeavor motherboard with Intel Pentium chip.  I
have a 540 Mb hard drive 'primary master' and (used to have) a Quantum 240
secondary master (no slaves).  Whenever I accessed the 240, it slowed my
system down.  Mouse skipped in photoshop, even music slowed down when
loading games!  I got rid of the 240 replaced it with a Quantum bigfoot
2500.  Same problem, I'm not sure if it is as bad but still really
annoying.  Is it Quantum's fault, my fault, or Intel's?  What should I do? 
Would changing the bigfoot to a slave help?
Thanks for any help -- Bart.  Also please CC me - bart@cloud9.net .  This
will be greatly appreciated!  Thanks again.

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From: "Bart" <bart@cloud9.net>
Subject: Help! Secondary IDE drive slows my system down
Date: 1996/12/11
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