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II. Consider a disk shown with a sector size of 1024 bytes, 1,000 tracks per surface, 96 sectors per track, 4 single-sided platters and a block size of 2,048 bytes. Suppose that a file containing 400,000 records of 120 bytes each is to be stored on such a disk and that no record is allowed to span two blocks.
[6 Marks]
a) How many records fit onto a single track?
b) How many sectors are required to store the entire file? If the file is arranged sequentially (contiguously- according to the 'next block concept') on disk, how many cylinders are needed?
c) How many records of 120 bytes each can be stored using this disk?

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