Soft updates and power failure

[Pete French]

> It's quite possible that it is and I've done something dumb, I'm by no 
> means an expert on harddisk technology and was trying to botch around my 
> problem at the time being as it wasn't a service machine.

Well, neither am I :-) Interesting that we both get different experiences
for the same conditions though. Possibly there are a lot more varaibales out
there we havent taken into account.

Mind you, its just made me go round all the machines and just check that
I had properly disabled the write caches on the drive modepages though!

-bat.