need help booting from SATA in 2.4.32

[George Nychis <gnychis@cmu.edu>]

Hi,

I've booted from a SATA drive in 2.4.32 before, but for some reason
2.4.32 will not recognize this disk.  It is recognized when I boot 2.6.9
though.

It uses the ata_piix module in both kernels.  Whenever I boot 2.6.9 I see:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 SCSI subsystem initialized
 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
 ata: 0x170 IDE port busy
 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xBFA0 irq 14
 ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 78140160 sectors:
 ata1(0): applying bridge limits
 ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
 scsi0 : ata_piix
   Vendor: ATA       Model: FUJITSU MHV2040A  Rev: 0000
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
 SCSI device sda: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB)
 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 >
 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
 device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------

However in 2.4.32 all i see is:
----------------------------
 SCSI subsystem initialized
----------------------------

I am positive that my 2.4.32 has been compiled with ata_piix as a
module, and it does reside in /lib/modules/2.4.32/kernel/driver/scsi/

Any clues?

Thanks!
George