Your proglem is that your hard drive doesn't keeps settings from one reboot and the other. Sometimes this can be forced useng -k1 in hdparm options but it doesn't works on every hard disk.
-k doesn't save the settings over a reboot :)
From man hdparm:
"-k Get/set the keep_settings_over_reset flag for the drive. When this flag is set, the driver will preserve the -dmu options over a soft reset, (as done during the error recovery sequence)."
That is, when an error is encountered, (like a DMA error), if -k1 was specified, the settings are not reset to the defaults, and the transfer is retried with the enhanced settings.
To keep the settings over reboot, edit /etc/conf.d/hdparm, and do: rc-update add hdparm default
MAL
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