Assignment
Part
a)
05 Marks
You
have studied in this course that Tracks are the
circular division of the disk and the Sectors are the longitudinal division of
the disk. A typical track is
shown in yellow; a typical sector is shown in blue. A sector contains a fixed
number of bytes -- for example, 256 or 512.
As per division like above, there
is a clear difference in size of sectors on inner and outer tracks which causes
under utilization of the larger, outer tracks of the disk. What mechanism is used to improve disk surface area
utilization?
Part
b)
15 Marks
Suppose, we have a Hard disk having 16 (Read/Write) Heads
per Cylinder, and Maximum number of Sectors per Track is 63. It has total 1024
cylinders and Sector size is 512 Bytes. Answer the following questions.
Q#1. Find the LBA address of the CHS address (4, 6, 12)?
Q#2. Find the CHS address of the LBA address 4256?
Q#3. Find the Total Data Storage Capacity of this Hard Disk?
