On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 04:00:52PM +0000, Curt wrote: > Your URL doesn't specify the brand/model of hard drive in your laptop. > It just says 500 GB SATA 5400 rpm. dmesg reports this. I searched, but could not even find whether this has head parking problem and if so why the disk is quiet on FreeDOS. ata1.00: ATA-9: HGST HTS545050A7E680, GR2OA350, max UDMA/133 Mayuresh.