Consider a RAID level $4$ organization comprising five disks, with the parity for sets of four blocks on four disks stored on the fifth disk. How many block I$/$O operations will occur to perform the following?

$($a$)$ A write of one block of data

$($b$)$ A write of seven continuous blocks of data

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