I/O HDD

Question 1

How are I/O Devices connected to the OS?

Answer 1

I/O Bus

Question 2

Learn about I/O Devices and Hardware interface with the spick

Answer 2

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Question 3

How is an old-fashioned HDD aufgebaut?

Answer 3

• The HDD consists of 512-Bytes blocks numbered 0 - n-1
• There are rotating disks, which is separated into multiple tracks. On the tracks there are the blocks
• The blocks are read with a disk head
• Read and write of the blocks are atomic