Using the seatools software from seagate, my drives worked perfectly. Unfortunately they did not work in my raid 5 array.
I found a firmware upgrade for my Seagate ST31500341AS drives.
I found this on the seagate site:
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931
After I updated the firmware from 17 to 1B I have experienced no problems.