5K320 SATA OEM Specification
12.15Software Setting Preservation Feature Set
When a device is enumerated, software will configure the device using Set Features and other commands. These software settings are often preserved across software reset but not necessarily across hardware reset. In Parallel ATA, only commanded hardware resets can occur, thus legacy software only reprograms settings that are cleared for the particular type of reset it has issued. In Serial ATA, COMRESET is equivalent to hard reset and a
12.15.1Preserved software settings
If Software setting preservation is enabled, the following settings are preserved across COMRESET. Otherwise settings are cleared across COMRESET.
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