Practice Individual Tracks And Sector Addressing (31.1.4)

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Question 1.
What is seek time?
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Think about the movement of the head.
Question 2.
What is a sector?
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Consider how tracks are divided.
3Question 3.
What is the primary function of seek time?
- To move the head to the correct track
- To wait for the disk to spin
- To read data from a track
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Consider what happens first when accessing data.
4Question 4.
True or False: Outer tracks on a disk always have higher bit density than inner tracks.
- True
- False
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Think about how data size relates to track size.
Question 5.
You are designing a disk with 10 tracks and 32 sectors per track. If each sector can hold 512 bytes, calculate the total storage capacity in megabytes.
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Remember to multiply all the dimensions of your disk.
Question 6.
A disk spins at 7200 RPM, and the average seek time is 8ms. Calculate the average rotational delay.
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Convert RPM to time per revolution, then divide by 2 for the average.

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