Consider a magnetic disk consisting of 16 heads and 400 cylinders. This disk has four 100-cylinder zones

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Consider a magnetic disk consisting of 16 heads and 400 cylinders. This disk has four 100-cylinder zones with the cylinders in different zones containing 160, 200, 240. And 280 sectors, respectively. Assume that each sector contains 512 bytes, average seek time between adjacent cylinders is 1 msec, and the disk rotates at 7200 RPM. Calculate the
(a) Disk capacity.
(b) Optimal track skew.
(c) Maximum data transfer rate.
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Modern Operating Systems

ISBN: 978-0133591620

4th edition

Authors: Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos

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