A hard disk has 63 sectors per track, 10 platters each with 2 recording…

GATE · 2009 · CS

A hard disk has 63 sectors per track, 10 platters each with 2 recording surfaces and 1000 cylinders. The address of a sector is given as a triple (c, h, s), where c is the cylinder number, h is the surface number and s is the sector number. Thus, the 0th sector is addressed as (0, 0, 0), the 1st sector as (0, 0, 1), and so on
The address <400,16,29> corresponds to sector number:

  1. A.

    505035

  2. B.

    505036

  3. C.

    505037

  4. D.

    505038

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