CST 334 Week 7 - Home stretch
1. Topics Covered in Class · I/O devices and system architecture · Device drivers · Device registers and memory-mapped I/O · Canonical I/O protocol · Polling · Interrupts · Direct Memory Access (DMA) · Blocking vs. non-blocking I/O · Hard disk drive (HDD) structure · Disk access time (seek time, rotational delay, transfer time) · Disk scheduling basics · Files · Directories · Directory hierarchy and pathnames · ...