Q. 29 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
Answer: (D)
Explanation:
