Section 17.4
Review Questions

Disk addressing

  1. How does a computer locate data on a disk drive?
  1. What are the components of such an address?
  1. Why is it useless to specify the byte address?
  1. What do we call the device that interprets high level disk drive commands coming from the computer?
  1. What is a device driver?
  1. What tasks does the controller perform?