A device with data transfer rate $$10$$ $$KB/sec$$ is connected to a $$CPU.$$ Data is transferred byte-wise. Let the interrupt overhead be $$4$$ $$\mu \sec $$. The byte transfer time between the device interface register and $$CPU$$ or memory is negligible. What is the minimum performance gain of operating the device under interrupt mode over operating it under program controlIed mode?

A Hard disk with a transfer rate of $$10Mbytes/second$$ is constantly transferring data to memory using $$DMA.$$ The processor runs at $$600MHz$$ and takes $$300$$ and $$900$$ clock cycles to initiate and complete $$DMA$$ transfer respectively. The size of the data transfer is $$20$$ $$KB.$$ What is the $$\% $$ of processor time consumed for this operation ?

A graphics card has on board memory of $$1$$ $$MB.$$ Which of the following modes can the card not support?

RAID configurations of disks are used to provide