[mdlug] badblocks question

[Dean Durant]

Hello, I have run badblocks on some IBM eSeries blades
that I need to get fixed.   It reports about 2 million
bad blocks on an 80 GB disk.   IBM has me run their
diagnostics and they don't find anything.  I have run
fsck and it finds and fixes some filesystem issues,
but the bad blocks persist.   Is there anything else I
can do, and do people think it is a hardware issue, a
bad disk, or a filesystem issue?   Thanks, Dean