LOOK and SCAN disk head scheduling

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What is the advantage of LOOK over SCAN disk head scheduling?

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  1. sara
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    The LOOK algorithm is a type of SCAN algorithm. The difference is that, instead of forcing the disk head to fully traverse the disk, as is done in the SCAN algorithm, the disk head moves only as far as the final request in each direction.

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