Russ Blakeman wrote:
 If his Seagtes are ST410800N like mine they are SCSI 2 fast and I have had
 them on a non-fast controller but I did get sector errors until I did a low
 level format. They still didn't work right until I put them on the 2740
 which does the fast comm scheme.
  
Well that is the drive he is using, and that may be the answer.  I have
the same drive on my Linux box with a 2940UW card and it works just
fine.
Gary Hildebrand