Consider a disk that rotates at 3600 rpm. The seek time to move the head between ad- jacent tracks is 2 ms. There are 32 sectors per track, which are stored in linear order from sector 0 through sector 31. The head sees the sectors in ascending order. Assume the read/write head is positioned at the start of sector 1 on track 8. There is a main memory buffer large enough to hold an entire track. Data is transferred between disk locations by reading from the source track into the main memory buffer and then writing the date from the buffer to the target track. a. How long will it take to transfer sector 1 on track 8 to sector 1 on track 9? b. How long will it take to transfer all the sectors of track 8 to the corresponding sec- tors of track 9?

Consider a disk that rotates at 3600 rpm. The seek time to move the head between ad- jacent tracks is 2 ms. There are 32 sectors per track, which are stored in linear order from sector 0 through sector 31. The head sees the sectors in ascending order. Assume the read/write head is positioned at the start of sector 1 on track 8. There is a main memory buffer large enough to hold an entire track. Data is transferred between disk locations by reading from the source track into the main memory buffer and then writing the date from the buffer to the target track. a. How long will it take to transfer sector 1 on track 8 to sector 1 on track 9? b. How long will it take to transfer all the sectors of track 8 to the corresponding sec- tors of track 9?

Systems Architecture

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Chapter12: Secondary Storage Management

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