Operating System

1:

The maximum amount of information that is available with one position of the disk access arm for a removal disk pack (without further movement of the arm with multiple heads) is

A.

a plate of data

B.

a cylinder of data

C.

a track of data

D.

a block of data

 

Answer : D

Explanation :

Gokulnath said: (6:33pm on Sunday 30th April 2017)
Answer B:Data is read from disk by positioning the arm on the correct track and then rotating the disk to read data in the track. Same tracks in different plates form a cylinder. So data can be read from a cylinder without further moving the arm provided it has multiple heads for reading.

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