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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:

> Well, even without FLUSH CACHE, you can expect that sector being
> writen during powerfail either contains old data *or* new data.

I thinks so. It was not always the case with IBM DTLA drives, though.
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Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH