I've got a new ECS L7S7A2 motherboard with the SiS 746/963 chipset that 
I'm having IDE problems with. Searching the archives, it looks like 
there is a patch to the 1.6P kernel that may solve this.

Is there a way to patch the released 1.6 kernel to work with this 
chipset, or do I have to go with the 1.6P sources (I tried patching the 
1.6 source, but got compile errors)? This would be for a production 
server, so stability is important for me.

Or, am I better off sending this motherboard back and getting something 
else?

Thanks,
Dave