Install Problem Dual Boot RH72//XP

[Kirk Ingvoldstad]

Greets:

I am trying to install RH 7.2, dual boot with XP Pro.  I installed second
drive for RH.  BIOS sees it; Secondary Slave.  As RH install disk loads it
sees the drive as hdd and correctly identifies it as Maxtor etc...

As it probes a few lines down it says:

hdd:hdd: irq timeout: status 0x50 {DriveReady SeekComplete}

repeats this a few times, then:

ide1:reset: master error (0x00?}

tries a few more times then goes into the graphical install portion.  I get
to partition info and select Manual with Disk Druid.

It tells me "The partition table on device hdd was unreadable.  To create
new partitions it must be initialized."

I say YES, then:

Input/Output error during read on tmp/hdd


I went back into XP and created a partition (FAT32).  Same results during RH
install.  I went back to XP again (getting desperate here) and tried marking
it ACTIVE, hoping for I don't know what.  Same results.

Any ideas or does it just sound like a bad drive?  Its new 20GB.

Kirk