《现代操作系统教学课件》lecture-12-IO devices.pptVIP

Goals for today Discussions of principles of I/O hardware and software Modern I/O Systems What is the Role of I/O? Without I/O, computers are useless (disembodied brains?) But… thousands of devices, each slightly different How can we standardize the interfaces to these devices? Devices unreliable: media failures and transmission errors How can we make them reliable??? Devices unpredictable and/or slow How can we manage them if we don’t know what they will do or how they will perform? Operational Parameters for I/O Data granularity: Byte vs. Block Some devices provide single byte at a time