Question: A hypothetical disk drive had the following parameters. The seek time for a short seek is given as 1 + 0.2Jn ms, and the seek

A hypothetical disk drive had the following parameters. The seek time for a short seek is given as 1 + 0.2Jn ms, and the seek time for a long seek is 3 + 0.003n ms. Assume that short seeks are less than 200 tracks.

Suppose the drive accesses the following track numbers sequentially. What is the approximate seek time required (neglecting rotational latency)? 

1234, 1235, 1237, 1200, 2456, 2470, 1240, 1242, 100, 2120

1234, 1235, 1237, 1200, 2456, 2470, 1240, 1242, 100, 2120

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