Bug 68236

I alredy contacted the customer support. Copies of the e-mail follow:

MM>the hda is not recognized. by both Automatic/Manual partition procedures.
Sometimes FDISK recognized the drive but as soon as the partition is made, 
anaconda crashes.
Attached the output from anaconda 
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RH>Dear Sir/Madam,
According to the file that you sent, you have a lot of DriveReady SeekComplet
DataRequest errors that registered during your installation attempt.  This
maybe due to harddrive, controller or cable issue.  Make sure that your IDE
cable (if it uses one) is no longer than 17 inches and it is not twisted or
rolled.  Also, try passing the following parameters at the installation boot
prompt:
linux ide=noautotune
or
linux hda=nodma
If you a spare hard drive, try to use it or if you have another machine, try
the hard drive there.
Feel free to write back.
Regards,
Roderick "Erik" Tapang
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MM>Hello Erik,
Thank you for the prompt answer. Unfortunatly none of your sugestions worked. 
The PC is a brand new HP laptop on which is peacefully running Win XP, so no 
cable issue and no hard drive issue. Passing the parameters resulting in having
the same message as before in the 'noautotune' case and no drive found at all 
in the 'nodma' case.
Regards
Massimo Max MUCCI
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RH>Dear Sir,
It looks like the problem is with the ALI PCI IDE controller driver or the hard
drive attached to it that is causing the DriveSeek Error.  This device is not
listed under the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for Red Hat Linux 7.3. 
Support for this kind of deviceis not covered by Red Hat installation Support.
I suggest that you file this issue, including the anacdumpt.txt file at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. This way, you'll be in direct contact with the
developers.
Feel free to write back.
Regards,
Erik