Practice - Structure and Function of I/O Module
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Practice Questions
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What is a data buffer?
💡 Hint: Think about what happens during the data transfer process.
What does the device driver do?
💡 Hint: Consider how software and hardware need to interact.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What does a data buffer do?
💡 Hint: Think about its purpose in data transfer.
True or False: Seek time is the time it takes for the CPU to check the disk.
💡 Hint: Clarify what part of the disk access process this refers to.
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Challenge Problems
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If a hard disk takes 8ms for seek time and 12ms for rotational delay, what is the total access time for data?
💡 Hint: Add the two times together.
In a scenario where a disk is accessed 1000 times, with a programmed I/O requiring 4ms per access and DMA requiring 1ms, calculate the total time for each method.
💡 Hint: Use multiplication for the calculation.
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