0 votes 0 votes How much cylinder skew is needed for a $7200$-RPM disk with a track-to-track seek time of $1\: msec$? The disk has $200$ sectors of $512$ bytes each on each track. Operating System tanenbaum operating-system input-output disk descriptive + – admin asked Oct 28, 2019 admin 2.8k views answer comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
0 votes 0 votes Answer: $7200\;\text{rpm} = 60\;\text{sec} \\ \Rightarrow 1 \;\text{rotation} = \frac{1000}{120}\;\text{msec}$ Now, $\dfrac{\frac{1000}{120}}{200}\;\text{sectors} = \frac{1}{24}\;\text{msec}$ $\therefore \;\text{Cylinder skew} = \;\frac{24\;\text{secotrs passed}}{ {1\;\text{msec}}} = 24$ `JEET answered Oct 29, 2019 `JEET comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.