Homework 2

Due Day: Wed, Sept 3, 2014

Requirements:

• Learn the topic assigned to you
• Write summary of the topic - Power Point Presentation
• Design 2 - 3 Quiz Quiestions to Assess Understanding of Presented Material by the Peers
• Provide List of References
• Present in class on Wed or Friday (Sept 3/5)
• Length of the presentation is 7-10 min

List of Topics

1. Boot Process (provide overview of different systems)
2. Hard Disk Drive History, Hard Disk Drive Geometry
3. ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)/IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) Interface (Include expalantion of Logical Block Addressing), SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
4. Master Boot Record and Partitions
5. FAT (File Allocation Table) History, Versions, Concepts, Analysis, and Data Structure
6. NTFS (New Technologies File System) History, Versions, Concepts, Analysis, and Data Structure
7. EXT (Extended File System) and UFS (UNIX File System), History, Versions, Concepts, Analysis, and Data Structure
8. HFS (Hierarchical File System) History, Versions, Concepts, Analysis, and Data Structure
9. ReiserFS and VXFS (Veritas File System) History, Versions, Concepts, Analysis, and Data Structure