| Just curious how this program accomplishes its changes
| and whether the program has to run at boottime
| to have the setting take effect? does it belong
| in an rc script?

They are not persistant after a reboot.  IIRC, there is no startup script
for hdparm, however; the hwtools package includes a hdparm section in it's
startup script.  Otherwise copy the /etc/init.d/skeleton and build your own.

HTH,

Brooks

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