ata_piix sata support in a 2.4.27 kernel?

[cartpullerjack]

For various reasons, I am tied to a 2.4.27 kernel, but I need it to be able to run on any reasonably arbitrary x86 machine. The problem I have is that there are some standard OEM boxes that use the ICH5 and ICH6 SATA chipsets, and 2.4.27 doesn't have ata_piix support built in.

To backport, I've tried various patches. I built one from a diff of the SCSI drivers in a 2.4.28 kernel, and on top of that, I used this one: http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/8/31/436, which updates the 2.4.28 ata_piix driver.

I've tried variously building the driver into the kernel, or compiling it as a module. When compiled as a module, here's what I get:

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# modprobe ata_piix
/lib/modules/2.4.27-adeos-3-p3/kernel/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
      You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.27-adeos-3-p3/kernel/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.27-adeos-3-p3/kernel/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.27-adeos-3-p3/kernel/drivers/scsi/ata_piix.o: insmod ata_piix failed

So the question is: does anyone know how I should go about backporting ata_piix support to 2.4.27? Or is there an independently compilable module somewhere that can handle this (like how shfs or alsa is compiled for 2.4)?

Thanks.