Re: how to simulate/insert a hard drive (physical) bad block error?

On Apr 1, 2005 8:58 PM, Gary Funck <gary@intrepid.com> wrote:
> We'd like to test a disk imaging/copy device/procedure to see how it
> fares if the source drive has one/more bad block errors.  Is there a way,
> by communicating with the hard drive, presumably at a very low level,
> to convince the drive that it should mark a sector as having a
> permannent error, and to _not_ have it try and spare this particular
> sector to a good sector on an alternate track?  Basically, we'd like
> to insert what appears to be several (physical) bad blocks for the
> purposes of testing.

FS-TST - Forensic Software Testing Support Tools

"A software package developed to aid the testing of disk imaging tools
typically used in forensic investigations. The package includes
programs that use the interrupt 13h BIOS disk interface to initialize
disk drives, detect changes in disk content, compare pairs of disks,
and simulate bad sectors on a disk. "

http://www.e-evidence.info/other.html

Sectors, clusters, blocks, ......  Google needs to add a thesaurus
search to repeat a search using similar words.

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