Operating Systems Concepts - Engineering

Q1:

The total time to prepare a disk drive mechanism for a block of data to be read from it is

A latency

B latency plus transmission time

C latency plus seek time

D latency plus seek time plus transmission time

E None of the above

ANS:C - latency plus seek time

Seek time >> to reach selected track of a disk.

Latency >> to reach selected sector of a track.