Random I/O Performance of a Tandberg MLR1 Tape Drive
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This paper presents an access time model for the Tandberg MLR1 serpentine tape drive and provides low-cost algorithms to characterize this model for each individual tape. The access time model is used to study the effects of scheduling of I/O requests. Simulations and experiments show that use of proper scheduling algorithms provides substantial improvement of the random I/O performance.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998