During install cfdisk wrote to both disks simultaneously

About a month ago, I decided to reinstall arch on my old rig. I have two Hard drives in it, one is SATA, the other IDE. The sata drive held my /home partition, and I had no intention of formatting it. However, at some point the process failed (the details are already escaping me), and I decided to try again. At this point I realized that all of the changes that I had intended to make to the IDE drive were performed on both drives simultaneously. (I remember that early on, there was some indication that the two drives were being confused, but I can't remember what it was). Out of sheer stupidity, I decided to make sure that it was not a user error, and installed again, and confirmed that it was NOT something that I was doing as it happened again. (I have done quite a few installs both arch and other distributions without ever making a mistake like this, and I am totally confident that this was not purely a user error)
Anyway, the short version is that my sata drive, that has years of accumulated photos, documents and music has been repartitioned and reformatted at least twice. I know that there is software out there that can help with recovery of lost data (including dd and rescuedd), but would it be possible to recover the data under these circumstances? There were actually two partitions on that drive, and I can't even remember the exact size of each one!
I guess that I should mention that the problem didn't seem to be confined to cfdisk because the programs that install the FS's doesn't directly involve cfdisk.
Last edited by Convergence (2011-02-24 08:31:33)

Ok I found this DLL has an error with P4 processors.
http://developer.intel.com/design/processor/future/manuals/knownissue.htm
Is there any work around or just a straight rebuild of the code with new DLL

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Thanks for reading, if I forgot something or if you want more informations, ask me!
Bye.
PS : My English isn't very good, sorry.
EDIT : I found a part of the solution ! It seems to be an issue with the kernel that doesn't detect properly if my disc is capable of doing WRITE SAME command.
So I have to write "0" in the file "max_write_same_blocks" under /sys. But the problem is that /sys is renewed every boot so I don't know how to make my changes permanent. I made a systemd service file, it almost works, but this solution isn't nice : the parameter is applied lately so errors shows at the beginning and this is not really easy to set up. I prefer a solution like "sysctl" but it seems that it only controls parameter under /proc/sys and not /sys, am I right ?
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[Unit]
Description=No WRITE SAME
After=local-fs.target
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Last edited by rfnx (2013-06-02 15:26:50)

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w /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/host0/target0:1:0/0:1:0:0/scsi_disk/0:1:0:0/max_write_same_blocks - - - - 0
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Last edited by rfnx (2013-06-02 15:34:11)

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*sigh*
Back to square one......
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> Now how do I delete this thread
You don't. Others may run into the same problem and benefit from your solution when they stumble across this thread, so thanks for sharing :-)
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