The accelerating seek described in Exercise 14.3 is typical of hard-disk drives. By contrast, floppy disks (and
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The accelerating seek described in Exercise 14.3 is typical of hard-disk drives. By contrast, floppy disks (and many hard disks manufactured before the mid-1980s) typically seek at a fixed rate. Suppose that the disk in Exercise 14.3 has a constant-rate seek rather than a constant-acceleration seek, so the seek time is of the form t = x + yL, where t is the time in milliseconds and L is the seek distance. Suppose that the time to seek to an adjacent cylinder is 1 millisecond, as before, and is 0.5 milliseconds for each additional cylinder.
a. Write an equation for this seek time as a function of the seek distance.
b. Using the seek-time function from part a, calculate the total seek time for each of the schedules in Exercise 14.2. Is your answer the same as it was for Exercise 14.3(c)?
c. What is the percentage speedup of the fastest schedule over FCFS in this case?
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