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Suppose that a disk drive has 100 cylinders, numbered 0 to 99. The drive is currently serving a request at cylinder 43, and previous request was at cylinder 25. The queue of pending request, in FIFO order is:

86, 70, 13, 74, 48, 9, 22, 50, 30

Starting from the current head position, what is the total distance (in cylinders) that the disk arm moves to satisfy all pending requests for each of the following disk scheduling algorithms?

a.  FCFS

b.  SCAN

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