Comment 15 for bug 986321

The same bug with Ubuntu 12.04: I installed ubuntu on SATA drive WDC WD1200BEVS-75UST0 on Dell Inspiron 1501. After install, update from repos and reboot I have a bunch of READ FPDMA QUEUED in dmesg.
Test for bad blocks by MHDD showed near 50 bad blocks. I just executed full by-sector erase of surface in MHDD, after that all bad blocks are gone. Overall hard drive state as showed by SMART was Good.
Then I installed Win7 on the same disk and it worked as a charm day or two. But I wanted Ubuntu after all, so I tried it again. I've formatted drive, checked it for bad blocks - there were not any! Then I installed Ubuntu and after two reboots I've got a whole bunch of READ FPDMA QUEUED and neverending boot. Drive is being erased now.