To enable setting hard disk SCT ERC on system boot time, add the following to your /etc/rc.conf: scterc_enable="YES" # specify hard disks to configure scterc_disks="ada0 ada1" # specify read and write timeouts in tenths of second # here each is set to 7.0 seconds, which is also the default # for which you may omit these lines scterc_read_timeout="70" scterc_write_timeout="70" See %%DOCSDIR%%/README.md for more info.