Consider a hard disk with 16 recording surfaces (0-15) having 16384 cylinders…
GATE · 2013 · CS · Computer Science & ITBARC · Computer Science · 2013
Consider a hard disk with 16 recording surfaces (0-15) having 16384 cylinders (0-16383) and each track contains 64 sectors (0-63). Data storage capacity in each sector is 512 bytes. Data are organized cylinder-wise and the addressing format is <cylinder no., surface no., sector no.>. A file of size 42797 KB is stored in the disk and the starting disk location of the file is <1200, 9, 40>. What is the cylinder number of the last sector of the file, if it is stored in a contiguous manner?
- A.
1281
- B.
1282
- C.
1283
- D.
1284
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