On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 09:16:36PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:

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That assumes libata is a module, which it is not for many popular
distributions.

As long as you can prevent ata_piix from loading, it should be fine.

Again, this might very well be built in, e.g. take a look at:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=kernel.git;a=blob;f=config-generic;h=779415bcc036b922ba92de9c4b15b9da64e9707c;hb=HEAD

http://gitorious.org/opensuse/kernel-source/blobs/master/config/x86_64/default