Hard disk interface used in computer forensic science

Author

Wick, Carl ; Avramov-Zamurovic, Svetlana ; Lyle, Jim

Author_Institution

US Naval Acad., Annapolis, MD, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

18-20 May 2004

Firstpage

1780

Abstract

This paper will discuss a project that is related to the NIST development of standard methods for testing disk imaging tools. The goal of the project is to enhance current software-intensive tool tests by providing a hardware-oriented mechanism for simulating disk drive faults. This new system is significant because knowing the behavior of computer forensics tools operating in the presence of I/O errors is critical to a complete evaluation of disk imaging tools, and it is difficult to simulate hardware errors accurately with software alone.

Keywords

disc drives; discrete event simulation; hard discs; police; program testing; software tools; computer forensic science; disk drive faults; disk imaging tools; forensic software tools; hard disk interface; hardware trapping; hardware-oriented mechanism; law enforcement; programmable microprocessor; software testing; software-intensive tool tests; standard test method; Computational modeling; Computer errors; Computer interfaces; Computer simulation; Disk drives; Forensics; Hard disks; NIST; Software testing; Standards development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2004. IMTC 04. Proceedings of the 21st IEEE

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8248-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2004.1351427

Filename

1351427