Re: Help! Secondary IDE drive slows my system down

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From: Slaughter
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:00

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You should  try using it as the Primary Slave, and see what happens.
Other than that, update your Endeavor's BIOS to 1.00.05 or whatever is
the latest.  Just checked, the latest Endeavor bios is;
ftp://ftp.intel.com/pub/bios/10006cb0.exe

"Bart" <bart@cloud9.net> wrote:
>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: m@erols.com (Slaughter)
Subject: Re: Help! Secondary IDE drive slows my system down
Date: 1996/12/13
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