May 2001 Core Exam

OS2

Consider a disk drive with the following parameters: seek time = 5 ms, rotational latency = 5 ms, and a transfer rate (after the seek and rotational latency have occured) of 10 MB/s. Recall that 1 ms = 10^(-3) seconds, 1 MB = 10^6 bytes, and 1 MB/s = 1 MB per second.

Answer the following questions: