On Gwe, 2005-08-12 at 10:34 -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote: > >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.
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