This isn't generally a help forum, but is your PATA device even being detected? It should show up in the boot messages; you can use [Shift]-[PgUp] to scroll back. And make sure that your filesystem is also staticly compiled.
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Re: Switching to Libata drivers
This isn't generally a help forum, but is your PATA device even being detected? It should show up in the boot messages; you can use [Shift]-[PgUp] to scroll back. And make sure that your filesystem is also staticly compiled.