1
GATE CSE 2001
Subjective
+5
-0
Consider a disk with following specifications: $$20$$ surface, $$1000$$ tracks/surface, $$16$$ sectors/track, data density $$1$$ $$KB/sector,$$ rotation speed $$3000$$ $$rpm.$$ The operating system initiates the transfer between the disk and the memory sector-wise. Once the head has been placed on the right track, the disk reads a sector in a single scan. It reads bits from the sector while the head is passing over the sector. The read bits are formed into bytes in a serial $$=$$in-parallel-out buffer and each byte is then transferred to memory. The disk writing is exactly a complementary process. For parts $$(c)$$ and $$(d)$$ below, assume memory read-write time $$= 0.1$$ micro-second/ byte, interrupt driven transfer has an interrupt overhead $$= 0.4$$ microseconds, the $$DMA$$ initialization and termination overhead is negligible compared to the total sector transfer time. $$DMA$$ requests are always granted.

(a) What is the total capacity of the disk?
(b) What is the data transfer rate?
(c) What is the percentage of time the $$CPU$$ is required for this disk $${\rm I}/O$$ for byte-wise interrupts driven transfer?
(d) What is the maximum percentage of time the $$CPU$$ is held up for this disk $${\rm I}/O$$ for cycle-stealing $$DMA$$ transfer ?

2
GATE CSE 1996
Subjective
+5
-0
A file system with a one-level directory structure is implemented on a disk with disk block size of $$4$$ K bytes. The disk is used as follows:

Disk-block $$0:$$ File Allocation Table, consisting of one $$8$$-bit entry per date block, representing the data block address of the next date block in the file:

Disk block $$1:$$ $$\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,$$ Directory, with one $$32$$ bit entry per file:
Disk block $$2:$$ $$\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,$$ Data block $$1;$$
Disk block $$3:$$ $$\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,$$ Data block $$2;$$ etc.

(a) What is the maximum possible number of files?
(b) What is the maximum possible file size in blocks?

3
GATE CSE 1995
Subjective
+5
-0
The head of a moving head disk with $$100$$ tracks numbered $$0$$ to $$99$$ is currently serving a request at tract $$55.$$ If the queue of requests kept in $$FIFO$$ order is $$10, 70, 75, 23, 65$$ Which of the two disk scheduling algorithms $$FCFS$$ (First Come First Served) and $$SSTF$$ (Shortest Seek Time First) will require less head movement? Find the head movement for each of the algorithms.
4
GATE CSE 1995
Subjective
+5
-0
If the overhead for formatting a disk is $$96$$ bytes for $$40000$$ bytes sector, Compute the unformatted capacity of the disk of the following parameters:
Number of surface: $$8$$
Outer diameter of the disk : $$12cm$$
Inner diameter of the disk: $$4cm$$
Inter track space: $$0.1mm$$
Number of sectors per track: $$20$$
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