How to load sata_nv before pata_amd on Kubuntu Hardy 8.04

[Nigel Henry]

I added a pata harddrive to my machine that already has 2 sata harddrives.

Hardy is loading pata_amd before sata_nv. Is there a way to load sata_nv 
first?

I have a bunch of distros on this machine, with many FAT32 data partitions 
shared, so the drive order is important.

Dapper is loading them in the correct order: 1, sda; 2, sdb; 3, hda (no 
libata).

Intrepid is loading them in the correct order: 1, sda; 2, sdb; 3, sdc (the 
pata drive).

All the Fedora installs are as Intrepid above.

Had a problem with drive ordering with Archlinux, but appending the kernel 
line in grub with -earlymodules --sata_nv resolved that problem. Archlinux 
uses mkinitcpio for the initramfs so that wouldn't work for the Hardy 
problem, but is there something similar I could append the kernel line with 
in Hardy, that would load the sata_nv module before the pata one?

Many thanks for any assistance with this problem.

Nigel.