How can I load sata_nv before amd_pata on Hardy

[Nigel Henry]

I added an 80GB pata harddrive to my machine that already had 2 sata 
harddrives. Only Hardy seems to have a problem identifying it as sdc, and 
instead lists it in fdisk -l as sda. Hardy boots up ok, perhaps due to the 
use of UUID's, but kdiskfree (I'm using Kubuntu) lists / as sdb13, which 
should be sda13, and /home is sdb14, but should be sda14. Also I have no swap 
now, as swap is on sda3 (the first sata drive), but the pata drive is now 
sda, and sda3 on that is a FAT32 data partition. There are also desktop icons 
for accessing mounted FAT32 partitions on sdb, and sda, but because of Hardy 
now having the wrong ordering of the drives, these no longer work.

There are a bunch of other distros on this machine, and none excepting 
Archlinux had a problem when I added the 80GB pata drive. Dapper, and Gutsy, 
with no libata showed the pata drive as hda, and Intrepid which has libata 
shows it correctly as sdc. The Fedora installs also show it as sdc. I fixed 
the problem on Archlinux by adding earlymodules=sata_nv to the kernel line in 
Grub, but Archlinux uses mkinitcpio, not initramfs, and that command doesn't 
work on Hardy.

So what I'd like to know, is how to fix the problem so that sata_nv is loaded 
first, and the 2 sata drives are correctly identified as sda, and sdb, with 
the added pata drive as sdc.

I found a lot of different commands for the initramfs, but nothing about doing 
the above, and I've never messed with initramfs before.

Thanks for any assistance with this problem.

Nigel.