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36.3 A Simple Disk Drive: ARD ISK Rives

A single-track hard disk is described with 12 sectors of 512 bytes each addressed by numbers 0-11. A disk motor rotates the single platter clockwise while a head attached to an arm can read and write the sectors as the platter spins. In the example, the head is positioned over sector 6 as the surface rotates counter-clockwise.

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36.3 A Simple Disk Drive: ARD ISK Rives

A single-track hard disk is described with 12 sectors of 512 bytes each addressed by numbers 0-11. A disk motor rotates the single platter clockwise while a head attached to an arm can read and write the sectors as the platter spins. In the example, the head is positioned over sector 6 as the surface rotates counter-clockwise.

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H ARD D ISK D RIVES

A Simple Disk Drive


Let us now understand how this all works by building up our
model of how a disk drive works, one track at a time. Assume we
have a very simple disk, with only a single track (Figure 36.1):

10

11
Spindle

1
4

Figure 36.1: A disk with just a single track


This track has just 12 sectors, each of which is 512 bytes in size
(our typical sector size, recall) and addressed therefore by the numbers 0 through 11. The single platter we have here rotates around the
spindle, to which a motor is attached. Of course, the track by itself
isnt too interesting; we want to be able to read or write those sectors,
and thus we need a disk head, attached to a disk arm, as we now see
(Figure 36.2).
Rotates this way
8

10

Hea

Arm

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11
Spindle

0
5

1
4

Figure 36.2: A single track plus a head


In the figure, the disk head, attached to the end of the arm, is
positioned over sector 6, and the surface is rotating in a counterclockwise fashion.

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