File System and Device Management GATE 2024 Question #473 with Solution

GATE 2024 · CS2 - Afternoon

Operating SystemsFile System and Device ManagementhardNAT2 marks

Consider a disk with the following specifications: rotation speed of 6000 RPM, average seek time of 5 milliseconds, 500 sectors/track, 512-byte sectors. A file has content stored in 3000 sectors located randomly on the disk. Assuming average rotational latency, the total time (in seconds, rounded off to 2 decimal places) to read the entire file from the disk is _________

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