Multiple choice

Consider a disk drive with the following specification 16 surfaces, 512 tracks/surface, 512 sectors/track, 1 KB/sector, rotation speed 3000 rpm. The disk is operated in cycle stealing mode whereby whenever one byte word is ready it is sent to memory; similarly, for writing, the disk interface reads a 4 byte word from the memory in each DMA cycle. Memory cycle time is 40 n sec. The maximum percentage of time that the CPU gets blocked during DMA operation is

  1. 10

  2. 25

  3. 40

  4. 50

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