Question

In SCSI disks used in high end PCs, the controller maintains a list of _________ on the disk. The disk is initialized during ________ formatting which sets aside spare sectors not visible to the operating system.

(a) destroyed blocks, high level formatting

(b) bad blocks, partitioning

(c) bad blocks, low level formatting

(d) destroyed blocks, partitioning

The question was posed to me during an interview.

I'm obligated to ask this question of Disk Management in chapter Mass-Storage Structures of Operating System

Answer 1

Correct choice is (c) bad blocks, low level formatting

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