CD-Rom Problems

[Nat_RH]

I have tried a fresh install RH 8 with two separate CD's and the installation hangs up right after starting the installer.

On Alt-F4 I keep getting the following errors:

hdc: status error: status=0X58 {DriveReady Seek Complete DataRequest}
drive not ready for command
irq timeout: status=0Xd0 {busy}

Then finally I will get:

ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0Xd1
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 0
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32

Alt-F3 gives me:
Trying to mount device hdc

I have tried 3 CD-Rom drives, 2 IDE cables, two separate CD's with the same error each time.

My system is an AMD XP 2000 with a MSI KT3 Ultra2 512MB RAM, Gainward Geforce 4 Nvidia video card.

I have hda installed with Windows XP and a new 80GB HDD for hdb where I want to install RH.

I have searched google and most other sites and cannot find a solution to this problem.

Anybody have any solutions to try?

Thanks
C

[mdwatts]

As root, add

options ide-cd dma=1

to /etc/modules.conf and then run

depmod -ae

See if that works...

[Nat_RH]

I can't get past the very start of the installation process. This occurs almost immediately on the install.

Any other suggestions?