Consider a disk system with 100 cylinders. The requests to access the…

GATE · 2009 · CS

Consider a disk system with 100 cylinders. The requests to access the cylinders occur in the following sequence: 4, 34, 10, 7, 19, 73, 2, 15, 6, 20. Assuming that the head is currently at cylinder 50, what is the time taken to satisfy all requests if it takes 1 ms to move from one cylinder to an adjacent one and Shortest Seek Time First (SSTF) policy is used?

  1. A.

    95 ms

  2. B.

    119 ms

  3. C.

    233 ms

  4. D.

    276 ms

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