>Unless you are using data=journal and have turned write cache off on
>your IDE drives that is expected. 

I seem to recall reading that after a power failure a modern IDE drive gets
enough power from the motor spinning down to always be able to write the cache
to the media.

Am I wrong about that or do you mean something else?

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