Added PATA HD, SuperDrive no longer ejects

Hi All,
So I installed a PATA (Seagate) HD in the top bay of my MacPro, set to master. The SuperDrive is in the bottom bay and set to slave. After booting back up, both drives showed perfectly (I already had a DVD in the drive). I watched my DVD, copied files to the HD, no problems. Then I went to eject the movie. I noticed the Eject key didn't work so I dragged the DVD to the Trash, and out it popped.
Now however, I'm unable to get anything back into the drive. The Eject button doesn't work, nor does Option-Eject, nor does the Eject menu item (/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Items/)
Any thoughts?

At least in most other Mac models the optical drive
is always MASTER. Did you change this when you
installed the Seagate drive or was the optical drive
already set as SLAVE? If not I suggest returning the
optical drive to MASTER and setting the Seagate as
SLAVE. I would also suggest you re-check the cables
to be sure they are seated correctly. Also verify
that your installation work didn't inadvertently
block something or leave something disconnected.
Thank you for your reply. I was always told that in an IDE chain with an HD and a CD drive, the HD always had to be master. (Something about the controller on the HD being better than those in CD drives) So I'm a bit timid to try that, though if anyone else cares to corroberate, then I'm more than happy. I don't think the cables are the issue as both drives transfered gigs of data this morning. Unfortunately when I try to eject, I don't even hear a "thunk" sound of the drive trying to open and being physically blocked. It's just completely unresponsive.
EDIT: I just now got a paperclip and pushed the eject button on the drive. The tray popped out, popped a disc in, and the DVD is now mounted and functional on my desktop.

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