sata and badblocks

[Derek Broughton]

Lea Gris wrote:

> misha volk wrote:
>> im using ubuntu 5.10 with a 2.6.12 kernel and an ICH5 sata controller
>> and a WD2500 disk.
>> the disk has about 25 or so bad blocks (not hidden by the drive).  when
>> i try to read/write them the disk access light coming off the mobo
>> lights solidly.  programs still run but when they make read/write
>> requests to _any_ disk they hang.
>> 
>> under 2.4 this issue does not exist.  thus far, to use the disk ive had
>> to boot a 2.4 utils cd and run mke2fs and fdisk from there.  
... 
> The breezy kernel 2.6.12 familly have several critical SATA bugs the
> ubuntu dev team will not fix like Bug 15324.
> <http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15324>
> "This bug has been fixed in the latest kernel in our Dapper release.
> There are no plans to fix this in breezy."
> 
> Breezy kernel SATA is broken and dapper is unstable. Either try dapper
> or use a more suitable Linux distro that has less SATA buggy kernel.
> 
> There are too few Ubuntu developpers to update/support current release
> and they focus on fixing the next one.

Isn't badblock handling strictly a function of the filesystem?  Surely it
shouldn't matter whether it's SATA or not.  (Please understand, I've never
been very clear on these low-level I/O issues - I'm just seeking
clarification for myself).
-- 
derek