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Date: Quiz for Chapter 6 Storage and Other I/O Topics 3.10 Not all questions are of equal difficulty. Please review the entire quiz first and then budget your time carefully. Name: Course: Solutions in Red 1. [6 points] Give a concise answer to each of the following questions. Limit your answers to 20-30 words. (a) What is memory mapped I/O? An I/O scheme in which portions of address space are assigned to I/O devices and reads and writes to those addresses are interpreted as commands to the I/O device. (b) Why is DMA an improvement over CPU programmed I/O? DMA is a mechanism that provides a device controller the ability to transfer data directly to or from the memory without involving the processor. This allows the CPU to perform arithmetic and other instructions while the DMA is going on in parallel (c) When would DMA transfer be a poor choice? DMA is not useful when the amount of data to transferred between memory and the I/O device is very less. In this case the overhead of setting up the DMA transfer would outweigh the benefits of direct data transfer without the interference of the processor. 2. [6 points] Mention two advantages and disadvantages for using a single bus as a shared communication link between memory, processor and I/O devices. Advantages: (1)Versatility – single connection scheme for easy add-ons (2) Low Cost – single set of wires shared in multiple ways Disadvantages: (1) Communication bottleneck, bandwidth limits the maximum I/O throughput. (2) Devices will not always be able to use the bus when they need to. Name: _____________________ 3. [6 points] Disk Technology. Suppose we have a magnetic disk (resembling an IBM Microdrive) with the following parameters: Average seek time 12 ms Rotation rate