A Detailed Simulation Model of the HP 97560 Disk Drive

David Kotz, Song Bac Toh, and Sriram Radhakrishnan

• The source code for our simulation model is available, but we strongly recommend that you look at the DiskSim Simulation Environment by Greg Ganger, Bruce Worthington, and Yale Patt. It's better.

• Yiming Hu's version of my simulator, with better support for multiple disks.
• A technical report about our model is available, containing documentation and results of validation experiments.
• The original paper by Ruemmler and Wilkes "An introduction to disk drive modelling", IEEE Computer 27(3):17-28, March 1994. (C) Copyright 1994 IEEE.
• Traces and other related information can be found at HP.

The code has been used in many places

• STARFISH simulator at Dartmouth
• Galley File System at Dartmouth (actually, it was reimplemented)
• SimOS simulator at Stanford
• and several others

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