On 2015-06-23, Mayuresh <mayuresh@acm.org> wrote: > 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. > Hitachi HGST.