Solution2 - Technische Informatik
Solution2 - Technische Informatik
Solution2 - Technische Informatik
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Physical Concept (2/3)<br />
• One or more metal platters rotate at 5400, 7200 or 10<br />
800 rpm<br />
• A mechanical arm pivots over the platters from the<br />
corner<br />
• At any given arm position, each of the heads can<br />
read/write a circular region called a track<br />
• All the tracks for a given arm position form a cylinder<br />
• Each track is divided into sectors (typically 512 bytes<br />
per sector)<br />
Universität Duisburg-Essen<br />
Institut für Medientechnik and Software Engineering<br />
Exercise<br />
Operating Systems and Computer Networks<br />
& Datenverarbeitung 2
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