noone <noone@noone.org> wrote:
> P.T. Breuer wrote:
> > noone <noone@noone.org> wrote:
> >
> >><4>hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> >><4>hdc: bad_request: error=0x54 I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc) sector 1196808
> >
> >
> > Fix your cable or cdrom drive or controller (maybe torn off/on dma).
> >
> > You sure it's jumpered correctly? It says its master on the second ide
> > bus - so there should be nothing else on that bus except maybe another
> > cdrom. That is, if it is _really_ a cdrom, and not a cdrw, or dvd ...

> There is the CDROM drive and a CDRW drive on the second bus.

That's what's wrong then. A cdrom must be slave to a cdrw.

> I have used the CDROM drive and CDRW drive for a long time without any
> problems from either win and the working RH 7.2 installation, and have
> installed RH 7.2 from the CDROM drive just a week before.

Jumper them correctly - the cdrom must be slave and the cdrw
master.

> How did "know" that the CDROM is master on the second IDE bus when you
> said "It says its master on the second ide bus" ?

Because it says so three times in those two lines of error messages.

> >>This happens when the installer tries to copy or read
> >>setup-2.5.27-1.1.noarch.rpm.
> >
> > Move it to the other bus.

> Only problem with moving the CDROM to the other bus is all are used, and

Either you change something or you stay in the same sitauation.

I would jumper them the right way round before even bothering to start
thinking.

> winoze ( dual-boot ) may not like it

Then ask in a windows group why it doesn't like it and how to fix it.

Peter