DVD drive sucks life out of machine

Help! Whenever I leave a DVD in the drive (Lite-On), the system bogs down. It seems to relate to the disk spinning up, yet I am not using the drive. Task Manager does not show anything out of the ordinary.

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Help!
 
Whenever I leave a DVD in the drive (Lite-On), the system bogs down.
 
It seems to relate to the disk spinning up, yet I am not using the drive.
 
Task Manager does not show anything out of the ordinary.
 
900MHz T-Bird, 384MB, Win2k, Lite-on 6x DVD, Lite-on CDRW
 
Thanks for any help!

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Got DMA enabled in Windows and BIOS?