Question: Consider the disk arm is moving on a disk with 200 tracks and 1 ms is taken to travel from one track to the next

Consider the disk arm is moving on a disk with 200 tracks and 1 ms is taken to travel from one track to the next track. While retrieving data from Track 100, the following requests has arrived:

Track 120, 55, 58, 39, 18, 90, 160, 150, 38, 184.

Determine the seek order and the total seek time travelled by the arm when the following algorithms are used:

  1. Shortest Seek Time First (SSTF)
  2. SCAN
  3. C-LOOK

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