Unable to install RH8.0 due to disk / data corruption issues with the following 
configuration:

Asus A7S266VM mobo (SiS5513 IDE chipset, SiS740 North bridge, SiS961B South 
bridge)
x2 Maxtor 7200 30Gb IDE ATA133 (1st master and slave)
48x IDE CDROM drive (2nd slave)
x1 Advansys SCSI controller (old - about 2 years old, can't remember model 
number, at work currently)
x1 IBM 9Gb SCSI HDD (old - about 2 years old)
x1 Panasonic 3.5" floppy drive

Problems with getting PCI controller to auto-detect.
Problems with using the SiS5513 IDE controller on the mobo - seems to be 
corrupting data / freezing the installation.

I downloaded the ISO images, MD5 checksummed them.
I let the installer verify the media.
Installer would not detect my SCSI or NIC unless I append "pci=bios" to the 
LILO boot string ??

Once this was sorted, I began experiencing partitioning problems (with both 
fdisk and disk druid) where the system would freeze when attempting to create a 
partition that utilised the last cylinder on the slave disk. Swapped round the 
master and slave, as well as swapping out drives and experienced the same 
problems.

I got round this issue by not using the last cylinder (got the idea from 
Windows XP installations) on the slave and the installation proceeded as 
expected.

Installation finished (with ext3 formatted filesystems) and machine rebooted. 
But upon attempting to load INIT, I began seeing the following errors:

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } 

Fsck then reports disk errors after the ext3 journalling "loaded" and enters 
system maintanence mode. Upon "repairing" the errors, the system reboots and 
when the kernel attempts to mount the root partition, it cannot find it.
From what I can find on the net and from my own hunches I think it is a mobo 
issue and have found articles that kernel 2.4.20 fixes similar issues with the 
SiS5513 IDE controller. What I want to know is, am I right or wrong? And how 
can I get RH 8.0 onto this system.