seagate tr5

[cdoerbec at cso.fmr.com (Christoph Doerbeck a242369)]

Perhaps related....

On my Dell,  I recently installed a ide DVD (+/-)RW unit.  I had
another CDrom on the same bus and both units were set to cable-select 
master/slave
detection. The darn thing(s) just wouldn't work.  After I forced the units to
master and slave, the units posted up properly to the bios and my i/o problems
disappeared.  I also had to put statement like hda=ide-scsi in 
the kernel boot params and now the units work just fine.