?Consider a hard disk with 16 recording surfaces (0-15) having 16384 cylinders (

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?Consider a hard disk with 16 recording surfaces (0-15) having 16384 cylinders (0-16383) and each
cylinder contains 64 sectors (0-63). Data storage capacity in each sector is 512 bytes. Data are
organized cylinder-wise and the addressing format is <cylinder no., surface no., sector no.>. A file
of size 42797 KB is stored in the disk and the starting disk location of the file is <1200, 9, 40>.
What is the cylinder number of the last sector of the file, if it is stored in a contiguous manner?
(A) 1281 (B) 1282 (C) 1283 (D) 1284

Explanation / Answer

?d 1284

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