Disk-Management

Question 1

If the overhead for formatting a disk is 96 bytes for 4000 byte sector,
(a) Compute the unformatted capacity of the disk for the following parameters:

 Number of surfaces: 8
 Outer diameter of the disk: 12 cm
 Inner diameter of the disk: 4 cm
 Inter track space: 0.1 mm 
 Number of sectors per track: 20 

(b) if the disk in (a) is rotating at 360 rpm, determine the effective data transfer rate which is defined as the number of bytes transferred per second between disk and memory.

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