[Bug 69176] Re: No notification in Ubiquity for bad sectors

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: ubiquity-1.2.5

** Tags added: edgy

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Title:
  No notification in Ubiquity for bad sectors

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” package in Baltix:
  New

Bug description:
  Installing Edgy on an IBM A22m Thinkpad, Ubiquity would seemingly hang
  when either:

  a) attempting to resize an NTFS partition for the install or
  b) halfway though copying files if / partition already created before running desktop installer

  Looking in syslog I noticed ubiquity was detecting bad sectors on the
  HDD, but it does not relay this information to the end user.  Using
  the alternate CD for the install, a large red box will appear telling
  the user that the HDD is bad, as opposed to just hanging.

  I think notifying the user via the UI that bad sectors have been found
  would at least help the user know why the installer has hung.

  Oddly enough Windows will happily install and run on this HDD, even
  though chkdsk will consistently find errors/bad sectors.. I guess
  Linux is a little more picky on what it will install on?

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