Consider the following Graph of disk scheduling and identify the disk scheduling algorithm representing by this graph. Queue 84, 125, 11, 36, 170, 20, 172, 45

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Correct answer: D. C-LOOK
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The head services requests in increasing order up to 172, then jumps straight back to the lowest pending request (11) without going to the disk ends, and continues upward. Servicing one direction only and jumping back to the last request is C-LOOK.
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