Bug#571533: Lenny's Kernel does not support ICH8 SATA controller

[Laurent GUINCHARD <lgu@oleane.net>]

Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686
Version: 2.6.26-21lenny3

We have a IBM server (IBM Systemx 3250M3) which have an Intel ICH8 SATA controller.
When I try to install Debian Lenny on this server, the running kernel doesn't see the hard drives.

I've install another GNU Linux System with a kernel more recent and I've take this information.

PCI-ID of this controller : 8086:3B20

This is the result of lshw command for the SATA controller :

        *-ide:0
             description: IDE interface
             product: 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA IDE Controller [8086:3B20]
             vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
             logical name: scsi0
             logical name: scsi1
             version: 05
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated
             configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
             resources: irq:19 ioport:3078(size=8) ioport:308c(size=4) ioport:3070(size=8) ioport:3088(size=4) ioport:3050(size=16)
             ioport:3040(size=16)

In the ata_piix driver, this ID was introduced since the 2.6.27.

Is it usual to ask for a driver backport into the current kernel version ?

Thank you by advance.

Regards,

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