Disk Scheduling
• The operating system is responsible for using
hardware efficiently — for the disk drives, this
means fast access time and large disk bandwidth.
• Access time has two major components
– Seek time is the time for the disk to move the heads to
the cylinder containing the desired sector.
– Rotational latency is the additional time waiting for the
disk to rotate the desired sector to the disk head.
• Minimize seek time
• Seek time ~ seek distance