>I've noticed that "shutdown -h XXX" appears to power down my Intel
>Venus PPro board in such a way that the IDE disk's final writes don't
>seem to ever make it onto the platters.  The next power-up invokes the
>full dirty-shutdown type fsck.

I also have a Venus PPro MB, but I don't see this problem (but I have
SCSI instead of IDE).

--Ken