Computer Organization
Q272.
A hard disk has 63 sectors per track, 10 platters each with 2 recording surfaces and 1000 cylinders. The address of a sector is given as a triple (c,h,s), where c is the cylinder number, h is the surface number and s is the sector number. Thus, the 0^{th} sector is addressed as (0,0,0), the 1^{st} sector as (0,0,1), and so on The address (400, 16, 29) corresponds to sector number:Q273.
The storage area of a disk has the innermost diameter of 10 cm and outermost diameter of 20 cm. The maximum storage density of the disk is 1400 bits/cm. The disk rotates at a speed of 4200 RPM. The main memory of a computer has 64-bit word length and 1\mu s cycle time. If cycle stealing is used for data transfer from the disk, the percentage of memory cycles stolen for transferring one word isQ274.
Consider a disk pack with 16 surfaces, 128 tracks per surface and 256 sectors per track. 512 bytes of data are stores in a bit serial manner in a sector. The capacity of the disk pack and the number of bits required to specify a particular sector in the disk are respectivelyQ276.
A hard disk has 63 sectors per track, 10 platters each with 2 recording surfaces and 1000 cylinders. The address of a sector is given as a triple (c,h,s), where c is the cylinder number, h is the surface number and s is the sector number. Thus, the 0^{th} sector is addressed as (0,0,0), the 1^{st} sector as (0,0,1), and so on The address of the 1039^{th} sector is