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| • | Seek
time dominates the performance of |
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drive transfers |
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some systems!) |
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| • | Can
the disk arm be moved to improve the |
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| effective
disk performance? |
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| • | Assume
a request queue to cylinder #’s |
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| 98,
183, 37, 122, 14, 124, 65, 67 |
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| with current head pointer at cylinder #53 |
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