What Maxtor drive for G5??

I've just purchased 2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB Hard drives that have caused problems since I installed them 4 days ago. Reading these forums it sounds like there are major compatibility issues with G5 PowerMacs. I've attached these to a Sonnet Tempo X 4+4 sata controller. My Mac freezes ramdomly and sometimes will not boot.
Does disabling the SSC thing cure this? I've limited the drives to sata 1 using the jumper on the drives.
I can exchange these for Maxtor DiamondMax 10 drives, but am hesitant in case incompatibility issues arise.
Does any body have any issues with the Maxtors in a G5 2.0 PCI? What model would you recommend?
Thanks
Andrew

I've had a thought.
I'm running these 2 new Seagate Sata II HD's and an older Western Digital Sata I HD off the same Sonnet Tempo X 4+4 Sata controller (3 different ports). I'm not clear on whether SSC is factory disabled or not on these new HD's, but I have them limited to 1.5gb/s. The sonnet supports sata II and SSC aparently.
Would this cause some kind of conflict having 2 flavours of Sata HD attached? Or should the Sonnet accept different flavours of Hard Drive?
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