With the feisty 2.6.2.-rc6 kernel sata via is back to normal! However I downloaded the stable 2.6.20 kernel and compiled it with the feisty 2.6.20-rc6 config file and the resulting kernel would go past the sata via initialization but will stop at the raid initialization stage. Compiled again with no raid support results in a fully booting kernel.
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