A disk has 200 cylinders. There are ten recording surfaces per disk pack and each track can

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A disk has 200 cylinders. There are ten recording surfaces per disk pack and each track can hold 7,200 bytes.

(a) What is the maximum capacity of each cylinder? Of the entire disk pack?

(b) Assume that a file has 1,200 records, each 600 bytes long. Calculate the following:

(1) records per track.

(2) number of tracks required.

(3) number of cylinders required for the file.

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Accounting Information Systems

ISBN: 9780130861771

8th Edition

Authors: George H. Bodnar, William S. Hopwood

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