Turns out not to be the kernel in my case, but udisks-daemon which is doing the persistent polling of the non-existent GTP on the bad sector, and thus severly retarding boot times and performance.
I've filed a bug on that: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/946565 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550559 Title: hdd problems, failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/550559/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
