0 0 votes consider a disk having 10 platters with 2 recording surfaces each surface contains 80 tracks and each track contains 400 sectors with 1 sector capacity of 4KB.The capacity of 1 cylinder is ____? i was getting 400*4 KB = 1600 KB am i wrong ? Operating System + – Gate Fever 1.1k views answer comment Share Follow Print See all 6 Comments 6 6 Comments reply newdreamz a1-z0 commented Jan 21, 2019 reply Follow flag 1 cylinder contains 1 track from each surface 10*2*400*4KB will be the capacity of 1 cylinder 0 0 replyShare akash.dinkar12 commented Jan 21, 2019 reply Follow flag yes exactly 32000 KB will be capacity of 1 cylinder 0 0 replyShare Gate Fever commented Jan 21, 2019 reply Follow flag @newdreamz a1-z0 track capacity and cylinder capacity are different?? 0 0 replyShare newdreamz a1-z0 commented Jan 21, 2019 reply Follow flag track capacity and cylinder capacity are same only in case if you have 1 platter 1 recording surface only. 0 0 replyShare Gate Fever commented Jan 21, 2019 reply Follow flag thanks 0 0 replyShare TUSHAR_BHATT commented Dec 3, 2019 reply Follow flag shouldn't we multiply by 80 also ? 0 0 replyShare Please log in or register to add a comment.
