On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 02:29:13AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> You're disk probably has write-caching enabled.  If I recall correctly,
> just about all (modern?) IDE disks by default enable write-caching.

  Here's the atactl output.  The drive is from around 1995.  I have
another drive that says it has write-cache from atactl output, so I
think this one must not since it says nothing.  Or maybe it has
non-standard write-caching?

# atactl wd0 identify
Model: Conner Peripherals 540MB - CFS541A, Rev: 1.77, Serial #: FKB5NG7
Device type: ATA, fixed
Cylinders: 1048, heads: 16, sec/track: 63, total sectors: 1057090
Device capabilities:
        IORDY operation
	IORDY disabling

  Brian