1
GATE CSE 2001
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+1
-0.3
Which of the following requires a device driver?
A
Register
B
Cache
C
Main memory
D
Disk
2
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 ?

3
GATE CSE 2001
Subjective
+5
-0
Consider a disk with the $$100$$ tracks numbered from $$0$$ to $$99$$ rotating at $$3000$$ $$rpm.$$ The number of sectors per track is $$100.$$ the time to move the head between two successive tracks is $$0.2$$ milliseconds.

(a) Consider a set of disk requests to read data from tracks $$32, 7, 45, 5$$ and $$10.$$ Assuming that the elevator algorithm is used to schedule disk requests, and the head is initially at track $$25$$ moving up (towards larger track numbers), what is the total seek time for servicing the requests?
(b) Consider an initial set of $$100$$ arbitrary disk requests and assume that no new disk requests arrive while servicing these requests. If the head is initially at track $$0$$ and the elevator algorithm is used to schedule disk requests, what is the worst case time to complete all the requests?

4
GATE CSE 2001
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+1
-0.3
Consider a set of $$n$$ tasks with known runtimes $${r_1},{r_2},.....\,{r_n}\,\,$$ to be run on a uniprocessor machine. Which of the following processor scheduling algorithms will result in the maximum throughput?.
A
Round -Robin
B
Shortest -Job -First
C
Highest-Response-Ratio-Next
D
First -Come-First-Served
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