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1. For most computers, the bootstrap is stored in ________
2. Consider a disk queue with requests for I/O to blocks on cylinders. Considering FCFS (first cum first served) scheduling, the total number of head movements is, if the disk head is initially at 53 is?
3. I/O hardware contains ____________
4. Which one of the following connects high-speed high-bandwidth device to memory subsystem and CPU.
5. Whenever a process needs I/O to or from a disk it issues a ______________
6. In the _______ algorithm, the disk head moves from one end to the other, servicing requests along the way. When the head reaches the other end, it immediately returns to the beginning of the disk without servicing any requests on the return trip.
7. In _______ information is recorded magnetically on platters.
8. ______ controller sends the command placed into it, via messages to the _____ controller.
9. SSTF algorithm, like SJF __________ of some requests.
10. On media that use constant linear velocity (CLV), the _____________ is uniform.
11. The header and trailer of a sector contain information used by the disk controller such as _________ and _________
12. Which hardware triggers some operation after certain programmed count?
13. The time taken for the desired sector to rotate to the disk head is called ____________
14. When hardware is accessed by reading and writing to the specific memory locations, then it is called ____________
15. The process of dividing a disk into sectors that the disk controller can read and write, before a disk can store data is known as ____________
16. The host sets _____ bit when a command is available for the controller to execute.
17. The device-status table contains ____________
18. An unrecoverable error is known as _________
19. Device drivers are implemented to interface ____________
20. The data structure for a sector typically contains ____________
21. The data-in register of I/O port is ____________
22. In the ______ algorithm, the disk arm starts at one end of the disk and moves toward the other end, servicing requests till the other end of the disk. At the other end, the direction is reversed and servicing continues.
23. In SCSI disks used in high end PCs, the controller maintains a list of _________ on the disk. The disk is initialized during ________ formatting which sets aside spare sectors not visible to the operating system.
24. A disk that has a boot partition is called a _________
25. Which buffer holds the output for a device?

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