-k will keep the settings active over an IDE reset, not a system reset.
That is: Occationally, the system may find that it needs to update the
state of the IDE devices, and issues an IDE reset to send the disks
or controller to a know state (I'm not exactly sure how or why it does this.)
If this
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I am using potato, with an ATA/33 HD (Quantum Fireball, 8.4 gig).
Whenever I restart my system, hdparm yields this:
# hdparm -c -k -d /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
using_dma= 1 (on)
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