Consider a disk pack with 16 surfaces, 128 tracks per surface and 256 sectors…

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Consider a disk pack with 16 surfaces, 128 tracks per surface and 256 sectors per track. 512 bytes of data are stored in a bit serial fashion in a sector. The capacity of the disk pack and the number of bits required to specify a particular sector in the disk respectively

  1. A.

    256 MB, 19 bits

  2. B.

    256 MB, 28 bits

  3. C.

    512 MB, 20 bits

  4. D.

    64 GB, 28 bits

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