SATA issues when booting Ubuntu

[Joshua Bassett]

Hi all,

I'm having some issues when booting up re. my SATA drive (I also had
the same issue running Debian Sid). Ubuntu (/) is installed on an 80GB
IDE drive and I've got /home on a 200G SATA drive. However, when
booting it seems that it tries to mount the SATA drive (/home) before
any SATA modules are loaded and thus gives me an error when trying to
mount it...hit CTRL-D to continue etc.

My work around is to just mount the SATA (/home) drive manually after
it has booted, however this is annoying. Is there a way I can change
the order in which things are done during startup. I want any SATA
modules loaded *before* fstab is processed. I figure compiling SATA
into the kernel would fix the issue, but I shouldn't have to do this.

Anyone having similar problems or know how I could fix it?

Cheers,

nullobject