The Essentials Of Computer Organization And Architecture 4th Edition by Linda Null,Julia Lobur

Exercise 26

Repeat exercise 21 for the following disk tracks (assuming the read/write head is at track 50, moving outward):
48, 14, 85, 35, 84, 61, 30, 22
Reference of Exercise 21:
On a particular brand of disk drive, the time that it takes for the disk arm to pass over a single disk track without stopping is 500ns. However, once the head reaches the track for which it has a service request, it needs 2ms to "settle" over the required track before it can start reading or writing. Based on these timings, compare the relative times required for FCFS, SSTF, and LOOK to carry out the schedule given below. You will need to compare SSTF to FCFS, LOOK to FCFS, and LOOK to SSTF.
As in our previous question, when the first request arrives in the disk request queue, the read/write head is at track 50, moving toward the outer (lower-numbered) tracks.
The requested tracks are:
35, 53, 90, 67, 79, 37, 76, 47