Practice - Performance Measurement of Magnetic Disk
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Practice Questions
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What is a device driver, and why is it important?
💡 Hint: Think about how the operating system and hardware interact.
Define seek time.
💡 Hint: Consider the movement of the read/write head.
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What is the main function of a device driver?
💡 Hint: Consider the relationship between software and hardware.
True or False: The external memory is volatile and loses information when power is turned off.
💡 Hint: Think about how data is stored.
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If a magnetic disk can access data from 8 tracks with 4 sectors per track and 2 surfaces, calculate its total data capacity for blocks of 1024 bytes.
💡 Hint: Use the same formula shown before for capacity calculation.
Discuss how performance can be optimized when multiple processes request data simultaneously from a magnetic disk.
💡 Hint: Think about load management strategies.
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