Consider a magnetic disk drive with 8 surfaces, 512 tracks per surface, and 64 sectors per track.
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a. What is the disk capacity?
b. What is the average access time? Assume this file is stored in successive sectors and tracks of successive cylinders, starting at sector 0, track 0, of cylinder i.
c. Estimate the time required to transfer a 5-MB file.
d. What is the burst transfer rate?
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Computer organization and architecture designing for performance
ISBN: 978-0136073734
8th edition
Authors: william stallings
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