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the easy solution: get yourself an IDE controller card and connect your CD/DVD to those. That's what I did back in August because this issue was affecting all distributions at the time and there weren't any workarounds (not for me, at least).
the uncertain solution: switch your Sata disks from IDE to AHCI mode, that's been known to work in some cases. If you're currently in IDE mode and you've got XP as well, than don't bother because XP will refuse to boot in AHCI mode (unless your board has raid support, which my P5B hasn't).
and a solution that takes quite a bit of work: move a disk to the JMicron Sata port, switch that to AHCI mode, install on that, then move it back to the ICH8 (because it will refuse to boot from the JMicron port), make sure that you connect it to the FIRST of your ICH8 ports (because installing on the Jmicron port makes it think it's on sda) and then boot in either IDE or AHCI (both work, in my case that is).
As I said, the first is by far the most convenient method and pretty failsafe. The second one works with some distros and with other ones it doesn't. The third one I used only to get Debian Etch installed but, yes, it worked. I installed Suse using the first method, but I'm afraid I can't remember why. Maybe because the other methods didn't work, maybe not. That's for you to find out.
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