My SDS200 appears to restart with recording enabled about 90% of the time that it power-cycles if recording had been previously enabled. The only time I can guarantee that it will NOT do it is if:
* First time running after the SD card has been removed & updated (i.e. I take the card out, put it in my computer, do updates, put it back in the scanner, and restart the scanner)
* If the scanner has not shut down properly at least once after recording was enabled. So for example, if recording was enabled, and then power was disconnected from the radio without doing the proper power-down procedure, upon startup again it would not be recording. However, if the scanner was powered down properly and restarted, subsequent restarts would have recording enabled.
Because of this last point I'm suspecting there is some kind of status bit set in a config file somewhere. I haven't bothered tracking it down yet.