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Error Detection/correction And Fault Detection/recovery > Data Processing System Error Or Fault Handling > Reliability And Availability > Fault Recovery > By Masking Or Reconfiguration > Of Memory Or Peripheral Subsystem Of Memory Or Peripheral SubsystemOf Memory Or Peripheral Subsystem patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/08/07 - 20070260914 - Personal computer bus protocol with error correction mode An integrated circuit device has a function block to perform a core function, a bus controller through which the function block is to communicate with another device over an attachment bus, and an error correction module (ECM). The ECM adapts a bus protocol to a failure in the bus, so ... 10/04/07 - 20070234103 - Method and system for performing recovery of a single-threaded queue A method, system and computer program product for performing recovery of a single-threaded queue are disclosed. The method includes scanning a set of elements of the single-threaded queue to detect a cycle containing a first element, and, in response to detecting the cycle, determining a size of the cycle in ... 09/20/07 - 20070220308 - System and method for automatically restoring hard drives on failure Systems and method for automatically restoring a hard drive after failure are provided. Disk recovery data may be collected and stored from an operational, online hard drive. When the hard drive subsequently fails, a client-specific recovery media may be generated, which may include a lightweight recovery environment. Restoration tasks may ... 09/20/07 - 20070220307 - Storage system and control method thereof Provided is a storage system, including: one or more disk drives storing data; a disk controller for controlling data access to the disk drive; a power supply controller for autonomously turning off a power source of the disk drive according to the data access status to the disk drive, and ... 09/20/07 - 20070220306 - Method and system for identifying and recovering a file damaged by a hard drive failure A method and system for identifying and recovering a file damaged by a hard drive failure. The method includes monitoring event logs, mapping at least one failing sector to at least one corresponding corrupted file if a hard drive failure is detected, and performing a selected remedial procedure based on ... 09/13/07 - 20070214381 - System and method for automated recovery after an error in a batch processing system caused by malformatted or unsupported data A system and method for automated recovery of processing of a unit of work during an error in a batch processing system is disclosed. Generally, at least a portion of a unit of work and instructions of operations to perform to process the portion of the unit of work is ... 09/13/07 - 20070214380 - Monitoring writes to cache as part of system error handling Provided are a method, system and program for buffering writes to an Input/Output (I/O) device in a cache. Writes to an Input/Output (I/O) device are buffered in a cache. Information on the buffered writes are communicated to a monitor component enabling identification of the buffered writes in the cache. A ... 08/16/07 - 20070192653 - Data defect detection using soft decision result A defect detection device, apparatus, and method for detecting a defect of data recorded on a recording medium. The defect detection device includes a waveform state detection part generating information representing a state of a waveform of a reproduced signal from the recording medium based on soft decision results obtained ... 08/02/07 - 20070180291 - Image rescue An image rescue system includes an application program for communication with a mass storage device, said application program being in communication with an operating system layer for accessing said mass storage device to read and write information, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The image rescue system ... 08/02/07 - 20070180290 - Assigning disks during system recovery Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to providing adaptive system recovery for computer systems. This may include receiving restoration information from a first computer system wherein the restoration information defines each storage component associated with the first computer system and the restoration information includes a storage component status, ... 07/26/07 - 20070174666 - Disk device, control circuit, and disk controlling method A timer measures an idling time of a disk. When the idling time is equal to or longer than an idle-time threshold, a head reads each data among a multiplexed data and a comparing unit compares read data with other of the multiplexed data to detect data error in the ... 07/26/07 - 20070174665 - Method to adjust error thresholds in a data storage and retrieval system A method is disclosed to adjust error thresholds in a data storage and retrieval system. The method supplies a data storage and retrieval system comprising memory and microcode, wherein that microcode comprises one or more default error thresholds. The method determines if the memory comprises one or more operational error ... 07/26/07 - 20070174664 - Data recovery application A system for the recovery of data from a failing or failed hard drive including a computer, computer software and a chamber. The computer has a first hard drive and a second hard drive attached thereto. The first hard is the failed or failing hard drive, and the second hard ... 07/26/07 - 20070174663 - Analysis of mutually exclusive conflicts among redundant devices A system for analyzing mutually exclusive conflicts among a plurality of redundant devices in a computer system includes a data management module operable on the computer system. The data management module parses through status data generated by the plurality of redundant devices to identify an error condition in one of ... 07/26/07 - 20070174662 - Methods and apparatus for reconfiguring a storage system One embodiment relates to a computer system comprising at least one host, at least one object addressable storage (OAS) system and at least one communication medium that couples the at least one host to the at least one OAS system. The at least one OAS system has a plurality of ... 07/19/07 - 20070168700 - Method, system and computer program product for recovery of formatting in repair of bad sectors in disk drives A method for correcting a formatting error in a boot sector of a hard disk drive is disclosed. An error in a first formatting of a first hard disk drive is discovered, and a second formatting is extracted from a second hard disk drive storing second data. The erroneous first ... 07/19/07 - 20070168699 - Method and system for extracting log and trace buffers in the event of system crashes A method and system for extracting data of a buffer after a failure of an operating system. An application is registered prior to the failure. The registering includes identifying a buffer in which the data to be extracted is stored prior to the failure. The buffer is reserved to maintain ... 07/19/07 - 20070168698 - Recovering from a non-volatile memory failure Write operations store data in different physical memory locations. Each of the physical memory locations are associated with a logical address that is shared in common among the physical addresses. Sequence information stored in the physical memory location indicates which one of the write operations occurred last. The available erased ... 05/03/07 - 20070101184 - Apparatus and method for detecting over-programming condition in multistate memory device A system embodiment comprises a nonvolatile memory device, a memory, and a controller. The nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells. Each nonvolatile memory cell is adapted to store at least two bits. The memory is adapted to store a program when the system powers up. The ... 05/03/07 - 20070101183 - System and method for managing time-limited long-running operations in a data storage system A system and method for managing a time-limited long-running process that acts upon disks of a disk array is based upon a general rule of acting upon each disk in an order based upon the length of time from when it was last acted-upon. Disks having the greatest last acted-upon ... 05/03/07 - 20070101182 - Data storage system, data storage control device, and write error diagnosis method for disks thereof A storage system has a plurality of disk storage devices and a controller for controlling the plurality of disk storage devices, and diagnosis of a write miss to a disk of the disk storage device. The controller for controlling the plurality of disk storage devices attaches an ID to write ... 04/26/07 - 20070094532 - Kernel debugging in a cluster computing system An embodiment of a method of maintaining operation of a cluster of computing devices includes an initial step of detecting a suspended kernel process on a first of the computing devices. In addition to the step of detecting the suspended kernel process the method includes the step of issuing a ... 04/19/07 - 20070088973 - Technique for timeline compression in a data store A technique for timeline compression in a data store is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for timeline compression in a storage system, wherein digital content of the storage system is backed up to enable restoration of the digital content to one ... 03/29/07 - 20070074066 - High availability for event forwarding High availability event forwarding can be obtained utilizing distributed queues in a server cluster. Each server can receive an event from a data system, such as a database or SAP™ system. Event queues exist oil servers in the cluster can store an event until, for example, the event is delivered ... 03/29/07 - 20070074065 - Computer, method of controlling memory dump, mechanism of controlling dump, and memory dump program An apparatus of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes first and second memories and a storage unit. Further, an indication which indicates necessity of a memory dump is provided with the apparatus. A first unit boots the apparatus without using the second memory when the indication indicates the ... 03/29/07 - 20070074064 - Test circuit for multi-port memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a read bus line for transferring read data; a write bus line for transferring write data; and a temporary data storage unit connected between the read bus line and the write bus line and controlled by a test mode signal enabled during a test mode. ... 03/22/07 - 20070067664 - Failure transparency for update applications under single-master configuration Embodiments herein present a method, computer program product, etc. for masking data failures. The method comprises storing a single master copy of data and a replica copy of the data. Next, the method performs writes to the master using a middleware component. Reads are then performed from either the master ... 03/15/07 - 20070061612 - Deallocation of memory in a logically-partitioned computer A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, set uncorrectable error indicators in logical memory blocks in response to detecting an uncorrectable error in memory pages associated with the logical memory blocks. If the logical memory block is allocated to a hypervisor, the memory page may be ... 03/15/07 - 20070061611 - Computer systems and methods for automatically viewing multidimensional databases A method for automatically forming the clearest and most useful visual plot for a given dataset of tuples. A best view type is selected for a view that includes a subsequently added new field. The visual plot is populated with the data in the view and then automatically rendered for ... 03/01/07 - 20070050665 - Write strategy setting apparatus utilizing shared storage unit and method thereof A write strategy setting apparatus applied in an optical disc drive is disclosed. The write strategy setting apparatus includes a storage unit, an error calculator, and a write strategy controller. The storage unit stores an initial write strategy including a plurality of write strategy parameter sets corresponding to a plurality ... 03/01/07 - 20070050664 - Method and apparatus for diagnosing mass storage device anomalies A type of flaw present in a mass storage device can be inferred by examining the results of I/O operations performed on only a portion of the device, without testing or examining the entire device. ... 02/01/07 - 20070028135 - Method and apparatus for dynamic performance evaluation of data storage systems Improved approaches for evaluating performance of data storage systems used with computers are disclosed. The performance evaluation of the data storage systems utilizes dynamic performance evaluation by use of data throughput as a diagnostic. The data storage systems include, for example, either disk drives or RAIDs. In one embodiment, the ... 01/25/07 - 20070022316 - Use of non-volatile memory to perform rollback function A mechanism and method for maintaining a consistent state in a non-volatile random access memory system without constraining normal computer operation is provided, thereby enabling a computer system to recover from faults, power loss, or other computer system failure without a loss of data or processing continuity. In a typical ... 01/11/07 - 20070011488 - Storage system, adapter apparatus, information processing apparatus and method for controlling the information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus that enables easy identification of the cause of failure. The information processing apparatus has a transfer unit for transferring data between first equipment and second equipment. The information processing apparatus further includes an collection unit for collecting data that passes between the first equipment and the ... 01/11/07 - 20070011487 - Method and infrastructure for recognition of the resources of a defective hardware unit A system and method of recognizing resources of a computer comprising a system serial number and a broken hardware unit comprising a non-volatile memory unit and enablement definition data relating to functions of the broken hardware unit, wherein the method comprises starting the computer; entering a serial number in a ... 01/11/07 - 20070011486 - Apparatus and method for cooperative guest firmware A method and apparatus for cooperative guest firmware are described. In one embodiment, the method includes the launch of a virtual machine (VM) including a guest operating system (OS) and guest firmware. Prior to launching the VM, a data structure is generated in memory and is associated with the guest ... 12/28/06 - 20060294414 - System for memory hot swap A system may include a motherboard, a chipset coupled to the motherboard, a memory module mount coupled to the chipset, a power transistor electrically coupled to the memory module mount, a voltage regulator to provide power to the power transistor, and an I/O expander coupled to the motherboard. The I/O ... 12/14/06 - 20060282699 - Handling real-time write errors A recording device has medium interface means for interfacing with a storage medium for recording data on the medium and retrieving data from the medium, and host interface means for communicating with a host via messages according to a protocol (ATA/ATAPI). The messages include a write command for writing a ... 12/07/06 - 20060277430 - System and method for compiling a memory assembly with redundancy implementation In one embodiment, a computer-implemented system for compiling a fuse assembly for a memory is disclosed. The claimed embodiment comprises: means for defining a memory group including at least one memory instance, each memory instance being characterized by its memory configuration data; means for determining number of fuses required for ... 11/16/06 - 20060259811 - System and a method for asynchronous replication for storage area networks A data backup and recovery system for use with at least one server interconnected with at least one storage device, including at least one data recovery device, at least one associated data recovery storage device, controlled by the data recovery device, and at least one data communication monitor. A method ... 09/28/06 - 20060218432 - Method for the recognition and/or correction of memory access error electronic circuit arrangement for carrying out said method Disclosed is a system and method for the detection and/or correction of memory access errors in computer systems. Test data (P) is generated in addition to data (D) which is to be secured, using the latter data (D), and is stored inside a memory (4) in such a fashion that ... 09/21/06 - 20060212743 - Storage medium readable by a machine tangible embodying event notification management program and event notification management apparatus An event notification management program 110 makes a computer function as processing means for controlling notification, given to a predetermined system 200, of information about an event occurred within the system 100 that is acquired from notification information provided from a component (20, 30, 40) within the system 100. The ... 09/14/06 - 20060206751 - Nonvolatile memory system, nonvolatile memory device, data read method, and data read program A nonvolatile memory device has a controller and flash memory. The flash memory stores user data and an error correcting code for correcting an error in the user data. When there is a read command from the outside, the user data and error correcting code are read from the flash ... 09/14/06 - 20060206750 - Recording medium reproduction device An abnormality in text data recorded on a CD conforming CD-TEXT format is detected so that a proper display can be created. In the case of text data recorded in a double-byte character code (step 1002), if the text data is XX 00 (step 1006) or 00 XX (step 1008), ... 09/07/06 - 20060200696 - Storage system There is provided architecture of a storage system, which has high scalability, low performance ununiformity, and strong fault tolerance, and a control method thereof. The storage system is connected to a host computer. The storage system has four or more nodes. Each node has a host interface unit which is ... 08/17/06 - 20060184820 - Storage system The failure management sections of a host computer and a storage unit are connected through a failure reporting interface. When a failure occurs in the storage unit, the failure information is notified from the failure management section of the storage unit to the failure management section of the host computer ... 08/03/06 - 20060174155 - System, method and computer program product for testing software A system, method and computer program product are provided for testing software to be run on a data processing apparatus having a processor for performing data processing operations, a memory for storing data for access by the processor, and at least one temporary storage located between the processor and the ... 07/27/06 - 20060168470 - Random access memory with post-amble data strobe signal noise rejection A random access memory includes a control circuit configured to receive a strobe signal and generate a pulse after one edge of the strobe signal and before the next edge of the strobe signal for each cycle of a clock signal and a latch circuit configured to receive the strobe ... 07/27/06 - 20060168469 - Method and system for correcting program for use in composite video apparatus A method and system for correcting a program for use in a composite video apparatus can correct a program when an error occurs in a microprocessor including a masked Read Only Memory (ROM). The method and system correct a program of a video apparatus in which a plurality of devices ... 07/27/06 - 20060168468 - Method for recovering control of a continually resetting control module A method for recovering control of a continually resetting control module is provided. The method recovers control by monitoring a vehicle's communication links for a very short period each time the boot program starts and before control is passed to the application program. Alternatively, control may also be recovered using ... 07/20/06 - 20060161804 - Memory bisr controller architecture The present invention provides an architecture of a memory Built-In Self Repair (BISR) controller for connecting to N memory instances, where N is a positive integer greater than 1. The architecture includes N groups of data ports, N BISR_SUBMOD modules for connecting to the N memory instances, and a CLK_IN ... 07/20/06 - 20060161803 - Memory bisr architecture for a slice The present invention provides a memory BISR architecture for a slice. The architecture includes (1) a plurality of physical memory instances; (2) a Mem_BIST controller, communicatively coupled to the plurality of physical memory instances, for testing the plurality of physical memory instances; (3) a FLARE module, communicatively coupled to the ... 07/13/06 - 20060156058 - Data management apparatus, data management method and data management program There is disclosed a technique that can reliably erase data to achieve an enhanced level of security, while suppressing the problem of low operability and that of poor response of some other process due to an increased load. A data management apparatus for managing the data of a file system ... 07/13/06 - 20060156057 - Method and system for preserving crash dump in a diskless system The invention discloses a method for preserving crash dump data in case of operating system crash in a diskless device. The method and the system according to the invention uses two stage booting where in a primary and a secondary kernel are loaded. The primary kernel is a compact kernel ... 07/13/06 - 20060156056 - Write once recording medium and recording device and recording method for write once recording medium A spare area 12 is divided into partial spare areas 12A to 12D, and a defect list 15 is divided into partial defect lists 15A to 15D, with the partial spare areas 12A to 12D corresponding to the partial defect lists 15A to 15D, respectively. When a defect is detected, ... 07/06/06 - 20060149996 - Techniques for storing accurate operating current values Methods of manufacturing memory devices and memory modules comprising memory device. Specifically, respective operating current values may be measured and/or stored on a plurality of memory devices. More specifically, the operating current values may be stored in programmable elements, such as antifuses, on memory devices. The memory devices may be ... 07/06/06 - 20060149995 - Error monitoring of partitions in a computer system using supervisor partitions A method and computer program product for error monitoring partitions in a computer system. A global supervisor mapping (GSM) associates each supervised partition with a supervisor partition that monitors the supervised partition. A partition status buffer (PSB) denotes a status (GOOD, BAD, NOCARE) of the partition. The BAD status denotes ... 06/29/06 - 20060143501 - System and method for rapid restoration of server from back up A method of restoring a storage device includes creating an image of the storage device of a computer system; during execution of a boot loader, starting an initialization application that at least partially restores to the storage device, operating system data from the image; modifying a disk driver of the ... 06/29/06 - 20060143500 - Systems and methods for replicating virtual memory on a host computer and debugging using replicated memory Systems and methods are described for replicating virtual memory translation from a target computer on a host computer, and debugging a fault that occurred on the target computer on the host computer. The described techniques are utilized on a target computer having a processor that has halted execution. Virtual to ... 06/22/06 - 20060136775 - Rram communication system The present invention provides a RRAM communication system including at least one RRAM controller and a master controller. The master controller is communicatively coupled to each of at least one RRAM controller. The master controller is suitable for loading test input parameters into at least one RRAM controller, starting execution ... 06/15/06 - 20060129874 - Master controller architecture A master controller for an RRAM subsystem. An interface communicates with at least one RRAM controller. A main control unit selects and implements test and repair operations on the RRAM subsystem through the RRAM controller. A timer determines a maximum number of test and repair operations that can be implemented ... 06/15/06 - 20060129873 - System and method for tolerating multiple storage device failures in a storage system using horizontal and vertical parity layouts A fault-tolerant system for storage arrays that stored parity values both on separate disks from the data elements (horizontally aligned) and on the same disks as the data elements (vertically aligned), a so-called horizontal-vertical code or HoVer code. The fault-tolerant system has embodiments that are supported on a variety of ... 06/01/06 - 20060117215 - Storage virtualization apparatus and computer system using the same The storage virtualization apparatus has enough fault tolerance of communication paths connected to a physical storage unit. The storage virtualization apparatus of the present invention comprises: a first interface for connecting to a host computer; second interfaces for respectively communicating with physical storage units via communication paths, each second interface ... 06/01/06 - 20060117214 - Non-volatile memory system A non-volatile memory system comprises a non-volatile memory and a memory controller controlling the non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory has a pseudo pass function of returning a pass as a status even if a bit error reaching allowable number of bits occurs after at least one of a write or ... 06/01/06 - 20060117213 - Efficient maintenance of memory list Data management systems, such as used in disk control units, employ memory entry lists to help keep track of user data. Improved performance of entry list maintenance is provided by the present invention. Much of the protocol employed to conduct such maintenance is preferably performed by hardware-based logic, thereby freeing ... 05/25/06 - 20060112299 - Implementing application specific management policies on a content addressed storage device Implementing application specific management policies on a content addressed storage device is disclosed. In one embodiment, each data object stored on the content addressed storage device is associated with one of a plurality of data sets. A corresponding data set specific management policy is associated with at least each of ... 05/25/06 - 20060112298 - Method and computer program product to migrate legacy data to a raid array while contemporaneously providing user access to legacy data A method and related computer program product for migrating legacy data to a RAID array while contemporaneously providing user access to legacy data, comprising connecting the legacy drive to the RAID controller, converting the legacy drive into a legacy array, selecting the legacy array and selecting the RAID array to ... 05/18/06 - 20060107095 - Accelerated low power fatigue testing of fram Systems and methods fatigue a ferroelectric memory device. Within a single cycle, a group of selected ferroelectric memory cells is fatigued by reading a first logical value from the cells while also writing a second logical value to the memory cells. The first logical value is temporarily stored into latches ... 05/18/06 - 20060107094 - Method for estimating the early failure rate of semiconductor devices According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for estimating the failure rate of semiconductor devices includes obtaining accelerated stress duration data for a plurality of semiconductor devices, determining which of the semiconductor devices fail, classifying the defects for the failed semiconductor devices, determining a distribution model for the ... 05/18/06 - 20060107093 - Algorithm to encode and compress array redundancy data A method, an apparatus and a computer program product are provided for the compression of array redundancy data. Array redundancy data can be lengthy and take up a lot of space on a processor. This invention provides an algorithm that can compress array redundancy data for storage, and decompress and ... 05/18/06 - 20060107092 - Performing retry operations A method of performing a retry procedure may begin with detecting an error in a first zone of a data storage medium. Upon detecting the error, it is determined whether any retry procedure of a sequence of retry procedures has been performed upon detecting a previous error in the first ... 05/18/06 - 20060107091 - System and method for recovery of data for a lost sector in a storage system A system (and method) for a recovery of data from a lost sector in a storage system, which includes a set of readable and lost sectors in a plurality of disks in the storage system, includes identifying a lost sector of at least one disk of the storage system, determining ... 05/18/06 - 20060107090 - Dynamic memory architecture employing passive expiration of data Apparatus for passively tracking expired data in a dynamic memory includes an error encoding circuit operative to receive an input data word and to generate an encoded data word which is stored in the dynamic memory. The apparatus further includes a decoding circuit operative to receive an encoded data word ... 05/18/06 - 20060107089 - Diagnosing a path in a storage network Described herein are exemplary storage network architectures and methods for diagnosing a path in a storage network. Devices and nodes in the storage network have ports. Port metrics for the ports may be ascertained and used to detect link problems in paths. In an exemplary described implementation, the following actions ... 05/11/06 - 20060101304 - Disk array subsystem A disk array subsystem makes a diagnosis of a memory device while maintaining performance of a normal access to the memory device contained in a controller, thus enhancing reliability of the memory data. In the disk array subsystem having a disk drive and a controller, the controller has a cache ... 05/11/06 - 20060101303 - Self-repairing of microprocessor array structures A level of indirection is utilized when writing to a microprocessor array structure, thereby masking hard faults in the array structure. Among other benefits, this minimizes the use of a backward error recovery mechanism with its inherent delay for recovery. The indirection is used to effectively remove from use faulty ... 05/11/06 - 20060101302 - Method and computer program product of keeping configuration data history using duplicated ring buffers A method and related computer program product for storing first configuration information for a plurality of logical devices coupled to a RAID controller. Subsequent configuration information is stored for the plurality of logical devices coupled to the RAID controller while retaining previously written configuration information. Finally, in the event of ... 04/20/06 - 20060085671 - Error indication in a raid memory system A computer system includes a plurality of memory modules that contain semiconductor memory, such as DIMMs. The system includes a host/data controller that utilizes an XOR engine to store data and parity information in a striped fashion on the plurality of memory modules to create a redundant array of industry ... 04/20/06 - 20060085670 - Method and system for reducing memory faults while running an operating system Method and system for reducing memory faults for computer systems. In one aspect, a notification is received that indicates that a single bit error has been detected in a portion of memory of the computer system. A service program is used to isolate the portion of the memory that includes ... 04/13/06 - 20060080570 - Method of recovering reallocation sectors in data storage system and disc drive using the same A reallocation sector recovering system and method reducing a number of reallocation sectors by selectively recovering reallocation sectors, and a disc drive implementing the same. The reallocation sector recovering method in a data storage system may include determining whether a predetermined processing condition of a reallocation recovering process has been ... 04/06/06 - 20060075287 - Detecting data integrity Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for detecting data integrity. An indicator is written to invalidate a data block that is capable of being stored in a plurality of sectors of a storage device, wherein the indicator is written to the storage device in at least one ... 04/06/06 - 20060075286 - System and method for logging hardware usage data, and uses for such logged hardware usage data According to at least one embodiment, a system comprises at least one computer system having a Basic Input/Output System (“BIOS”). The system further comprises means for collecting, via the BIOS, data about usage of at least one hardware component of the at least one computer system. According to at least ... 04/06/06 - 20060075285 - Fault processing for direct memory access address translation An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to process faults in a direct memory access address translation. A register set stores global control or status information for fault processing of a fault generated by an input/output (I/O) transaction requested by an I/O device. An address translation structure translates ... 04/06/06 - 20060075284 - Method for over-the-air firmware update of nand flash memory based mobile devices The present invention is a method for receiving, storing, and applying an update package to modify an original image stored within non-volatile flash memory devices. More specifically, the present design provides a download agent responsible for communicating with a server to transfer and store the update package; and an update ... 04/06/06 - 20060075283 - Method and apparatus for just in time raid spare drive pool management Spare disk drive management in a storage system. The storage system comprises disk drives and spare disk drives. Spare disk drives are initially kept in power-off state. The storage system detects the failure of a disk drive and selects a spare disk drive to replace the failed disk drive. The ... 04/06/06 - 20060075282 - Diagnostic interface architecture for memory device A diagnostic interface architecture for a memory device supports in one aspect one or more dynamically reconfigurable functional interconnects normally utilized in connection with reading data from the memory device and/or writing data to the memory device. The dynamically reconfigurable functional interconnects are capable of being configured to operate in ... 04/06/06 - 20060075281 - Use of application-level context information to detect corrupted data in a storage system A storage system, such as a file server, receives a request to perform a write operation that affects a data block. In response, the storage system writes to a storage device the data block together with context information which uniquely identifies the write operation with respect to the data block. ... 04/06/06 - 20060075280 - Data integrity verification In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment may include verifying, at least in part, integrity of first check data and a plurality of data blocks. The first check data may be generated based at least in part upon the plurality of data blocks. The verifying ... 03/30/06 - 20060069945 - Signal processing apparatus and a data recording and reproducing apparatus including local memory processor In a data recovery processing, the conventional overhead, primarily, latency due to a rotational recording media is removed. Secondary, in a signal processing or in a recording and reproducing apparatus, reliability of data reproduction is improved by repeatedly processing data. These processing are achieved that input signal, i.e., raw analog ... 03/30/06 - 20060069944 - Program, method, and mechanism for taking panic dump To completely perform a memory data collecting process by a panic dump in the event of failure, in the configuration information about main memory 5 announced to an operating system by boot firmware, different areas (first main memory area and second main memory area) are set between activation of an ... 03/30/06 - 20060069943 - Disk controller with logically partitioning function To provide a storage system partitioned into logical partitions. A storage system includes: a plurality of disk drives; and a disk controller that is connected to the disk drives and reads/writes data from/into the disk drives, wherein the disk controller includes: a disk control unit that exchanges data with the ... 03/16/06 - 20060059383 - Defective memory block identification in a memory device During manufacture and testing of a memory device, a memory test is performed to determine which, if any, memory blocks are defective. A memory map of the defective blocks is stored in one of the defect-free memory blocks so that it can be read later by a controller during normal ... 02/23/06 - 20060041781 - Bounding defective regions of a tape storage medium Systems and methods for storing data on a tape medium and coping with defective regions on the tape medium are provided. The method includes: writing a plurality of envelopes of data onto the tape medium, each envelope of data comprising a plurality of blocks of data; detecting a defective region ... 02/23/06 - 20060041780 - Using parallelism for clear status track processing during error handling behavior in a storage system Tracks of meta data are cleared in a storage server by allocating task control blocks for executing associated tasks in parallel. Throttling and recycling of task control blocks is provided to efficiently use memory and processing resources. Under the control of a master task, task control blocks are allocated to ... 02/16/06 - 20060036899 - Method and apparatus for managing faults in storage system having job management function A computer system identifies jobs affected by a fault which occurs in any device or mechanism in a storage system to control the execution of such jobs. The computer system includes a DBMS server device, a virtualization switch device, and storage device. Each of these devices holds part of data ... 02/16/06 - 20060036898 - File operation management device The present invention provides file operation management devices, methods and processing systems which allow better utilization of application-processing units. It also provides file system operation functionality which requires less resources of the application-processing unit and provides a performance increase of the application. It provides a file operation management device for ... 02/16/06 - 20060036897 - Data storage device A data storage device comprises a flash memory controller having an interface controller, a buffer, a buffer management device, and a microcontroller therein. The interface controller receives several pieces of data and transfers them to the buffer management device, which temporarily stores the data into the buffer and can read/write ... 02/09/06 - 20060031711 - Information processing apparatus and information notification method therefor, and control program To enable the host server side to be aware of the recovery of an error when the error is recovered by the user's power off/on operation, the most recent state regarding occurrences of errors at printer 16 (steps S61 and S62) is stored in the backup RAM 12a each time ... 02/09/06 - 20060031710 - Flash memory device for performing bad block management and method of performing bad block management of flash memory device A flash memory device for performing a bad block management and a method of performing bad block management are implemented in hardware level. During a booting procedure of a flash memory device, a bad block-mapping table stored in a predetermined block of memory cell array unit or other nonvolatile memory ... 02/09/06 - 20060031709 - Failure monitoring for storage systems constituting multiple stages To provide a computer system capable of detecting a failure at an early stage while keeping down an increase in I/O load due to failure monitoring. The computer system includes plural storage systems connected in stages between a first computer and a second computer. The first computer sends control I/O ... 02/09/06 - 20060031708 - Method and apparatus for correcting errors in a cache array A system and method is provided for correcting errors in a cache array. Embodiments may include a lower level cache tag array to store a plurality of lower level tags to identify a location in a lower level cache of a requested data, an error detection element to detect that ... 02/02/06 - 20060026456 - Data storage apparatus and data storage method thereof A data storage apparatus and data storage method thereof which enable reduction of the number of maintenance sessions to replace malfunctioning storage means are provided. The data storage apparatus has a plurality of data HDDs; a plurality of error correction HDDs; a data distribution and error code generation device, which ... 02/02/06 - 20060026455 - Information storage medium, recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing method A write once information storage medium having original data, replacement data, updated data and management information recorded thereon and an apparatus for and a method of recording and managing the data and the management information. The management information includes a defect address, a replacement address and state information for distinguishing ... 02/02/06 - 20060026454 - Cache memory, processor, and production methods for cache memory and processor A cache memory built in a processor comprising a plurality of independent memory blocks, pass/fail information memory unit memorizing a presence/absence of a failure occurring in each of the memory blocks, and a screening control function substituting a sound memory block for a failed memory block based on a memory ... 01/19/06 - 20060015770 - Method and system for a failover procedure with a storage system A method includes receiving a first command for accessing a tape storage system, the first command containing an indicator that the first command was issued as a result of a failover from a first path to the storage system to a second path to the tape storage system. The method ... 01/19/06 - 20060015769 - Program, method and apparatus for disk array control When receiving a notification of an error detected by patrol processing of the device adaptor for a secondary disk apparatus, a first recovery processing unit reads out data corresponding to the error location from a normal primary disk apparatus and writes the data into the error disk apparatus to eliminate ... 01/19/06 - 20060015768 - Method, system, and apparatus for tracking defective cache lines To facilitate a processor during a reset operation, a linked list of pointers to a list of defective cache lines is created. The good data bits in defective cache lines are used for creating a linked list or other data structure for storing relevant information regarding defective cache lines. ... 01/19/06 - 20060015767 - Reducing data loss and unavailability by integrating multiple levels of a storage hierarchy A method for reducing data loss and unavailability by integrating multiple levels of a storage hierarchy is provided. The method includes receiving a read request. In addition, the method includes recognizing a data failure in response to the read request. The method further includes locating an alternate source of the ... 01/19/06 - 20060015766 - Method and device for managing defective storage units on a record carrier The present invention relates to a method and a corresponding device for managing defective storage units on a record carrier, in particular on a rewritable optical record carrier. To avoid synchronization errors of a drive when accessing storage units located before or after a defective storage unit, it is proposed ... 01/12/06 - 20060010340 - Protection of non-volatile memory component against data corruption due to physical shock This invention provides a method to operate a terminal (100), as well as a terminal that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes, in response to initiating a data write operation with a non-volatile memory device (132), activating a sensor (190) that is capable of detecting that the ... 01/12/06 - 20060010339 - Memory system and method having selective ecc during low power refresh A computer system includes a processor coupled to a DRAM through a memory controller. The processor switches the DRAM to a low power refresh mode in which DRAM cells are refreshed at a sufficiently low rate that data retention errors may occur. Prior to switching the DRAM to the low ... 01/05/06 - 20060005074 - Remote data mirroring Two data storage systems are interconnected by a data link for remote mirroring of data. Each volume of data is configured as local, primary in a remotely mirrored volume pair, or secondary in a remotely mirrored volume pair. Normally, a host computer directly accesses either a local or a primary ... 01/05/06 - 20060005073 - Data integrity checking in data storage devices A method for operating a data storage device having a data storage medium partitioned into blocks comprises. A binary value is assigned to each block, with the initial setting of each binary value to a first level. Subsequently the binary value assigned to each block into which data is written ... 01/05/06 - 20060005072 - Method and system of verifying proper execution of a secure mode entry sequence A method and system of verifying proper execution of a secure mode entry sequence. At least some of the exemplary embodiments may be a method comprising delivering an instruction from a memory to a processor across an instruction bus (the instruction at least partially configures the processor for secure mode ... 01/05/06 - 20060005071 - Automatic storage unit in smart home A method, system, and device for computer control of access to a storage unit. The computer monitors the physical environment inside the storage unit, assists in placing and retrieving desired articles of clothing, and provides a method of visualizing possible ensembles without the need to physically pull out the individual ... 01/05/06 - 20060005070 - Method and apparatus for performing disk diagnostics and repairs on remote clients Method and apparatus for performing disk diagnostics and repairs on remote clients. The method employs an embedded LAN microcontroller at a client to submit diagnostic commands to disk drives hosted by the client. Corresponding diagnostic data is returned from the disk to the LAN microcontroller, and an XML file containing ... 01/05/06 - 20060005069 - Method and system for increasing data storage reliability and efficiency via compression A method and a system is provided for increasing reliability of data stored in storage segments by increasing redundancy data and by permitting user data to fit around defective locations in the storage segment. User data is compressed and reserved for a portion of a storage segment having a data ... 01/05/06 - 20060005068 - Error correction extending over multiple sectors of data storage A method and an apparatus for storing a superblock of data codewords. The method includes providing sectorwise error correction codes in the data codewords. The method also includes generating superblock error correction codes as functions of the data codewords. The method includes storing the data codewords and the superblock error ... 12/29/05 - 20050289385 - Method and system for managing of job execution The system of the present invention is devised so that the execution of all jobs that access all of the logical volumes containing a physical volume in which trouble has occurred can be stopped at least until there is a recovery from this trouble. The schedule management part manages the ... 12/22/05 - 20050283648 - External storage device An apparatus for reducing data unavailability time after a loss of main power in a storage controller is described. The controller backs up its volatile memory containing posted-write data to a non-volatile memory upon detecting a loss of main power. The controller continues to provide battery power to the volatile ... 12/22/05 - 20050283647 - External storage device This is an external storage device for which erase is performed as units of blocks comprising a plurality of pages, and that uses flash memory that uses this page as the minimum unit for reading and writing data, the flash memory comprising a redundant part area for storing codes for ... 12/22/05 - 20050283646 - Mapping data blocks to storage blocks Provided are a techniques for mapping data blocks to storage blocks. A portion of data is received, and the portion of data is segmented into one or more data blocks. The one or more data blocks are mapped to one or more storage blocks of one or more storage devices, ... 12/15/05 - 20050278565 - Method for network traffic mirroring with data privacy Systems and methods are provided for preserving the privacy of data contained in mirrored network traffic. The mirrored network traffic may comprise data that may be considered confidential, privileged, private, or otherwise sensitive data. For example, the data payload of a frame of mirrored network traffic may include private Voice ... 12/08/05 - 20050273649 - Apparatus for high-speed streaming data transmission using pmem controller and method thereof Disclosed are an apparatus for a high-speed streaming data transmission using a PMEM controller and a method thereof. The PMEM controller (i.e., an I/O processor) transmits data stored in a storage device to a network through a process for a PMEM to local copy of the data between a large-capacity ... 12/08/05 - 20050273648 - Field-operable, stand-alone apparatus for media recovery and regeneration A method for recovering data from corrupted flash media and regenerated damaged flash media have been disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises accessing data on a flash media, searching the data for file indicia corresponding at least one predetermined file type, reading the data based on information in the ... 12/08/05 - 20050273647 - Disk subsystem A personal computer inputs path information for forming a path group and a storage controller manages the path group. For example, a physical path PS#1, a path PS#2 and a path PS#3 are defined as a path group PG#1 and instructed to the storage controller. This indication is stored in ... 12/08/05 - 20050273646 - Memory controller and method for scrubbing memory without using explicit atomic operations A memory controller includes scrub circuitry that performs scrub cycles in a way that does not delay processor reads to memory during the scrub cycle. Atomicity of the scrub operation is assured by protocols set up in the memory controller, not by using an explicit atomic read-correct-write operation. The result ... 12/01/05 - 20050268159 - System and method of improving memory yield in frame buffer memory using failing memory location A method is provided for testing buffer memory. The method includes a step of testing a buffer memory having a plurality of memory locations including redundant memory locations, to determine if any of the plurality of memory locations are unusable. Next, an address of an unusable memory location of the ... 12/01/05 - 20050268158 - Method and apparatus to eliminate interpartition covert storage channel and partition analysis A method, apparatus, and computer instructions in a logical partitioned data processing system for managing trace data. A call is received for the trace data from a calling partition within a plurality of partitions in the logical partitioned data processing system. The trace data in a buffer associated with the ... 12/01/05 - 20050268157 - Method for writing data to a non-volatile memory embedded in an integrated circuit and corresponding circuit The invention is a method and a circuit for writing data (DATA) from a processor (603) to a non-volatile memory (602) embedded in an integrated circuit. The main objective is to optimize the use of this embedded non-volatile memory. The method comprises a number of steps: The data to be ... 11/24/05 - 20050262388 - Memory controllers with interleaved mirrored memory modes In some embodiments, a memory controller includes first and second memory channel interfaces and memory access control circuitry. The memory access control circuitry is to send first and second primary data sections to the first and second memory channel interfaces, respectively, and send first and second redundant data sections to ... 11/24/05 - 20050262387 - Method of detecting optical disc error information A method of detecting optical disc error information on an optical disc, for applying in an optical disc drive, the method comprising: first, detecting whether the optical disc is blank, if not, perform the following: checking whether a seek error occurred, if yes, recording a seek error mark; while reading ... 11/24/05 - 20050262386 - Storage system and a method for dissolving fault of a storage system The present invention detects the occurrence of a bottleneck on the basis of the states of respective elements of the storage system and presents a measure for eliminating the bottleneck before actually changing the constitution of the storage system. The host element N1 is connected to the element N10 in ... 11/24/05 - 20050262385 - Low cost raid with seamless disk failure recovery A storage subsystem such as an array of disk drives, method of managing disk drives in the storage subsystem and program product therefor. The storage subsystem may be a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) and the individual disks drives may be Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) capable drives. ... 11/24/05 - 20050262384 - System and method for onboard hdd defragmentation and combining multiple g-list entries A HDD defragments itself while idle or in self-test when a defragmentation count exceeds a threshold. Also, the HDD combines G-list entries when a discontinuity count and a G-list entry density are both over a threshold. ... 11/17/05 - 20050257081 - Disk drive power cycle screening method and apparatus for data storage system The present invention is a disk drive power cycle screening method and apparatus for a data storage system. In an exemplary aspect of the present invention, a disk drive power cycle screening method for a data storage system includes: (a) selecting one or more drives in a disk array for ... 11/17/05 - 20050257080 - Method of checkpointing state of virtual memory for process An embodiment of a method of checkpointing a virtual memory for a process begins with a step of saving memory resident pages. The method concludes with a step of saving disk swap pages after the step of saving the memory resident pages. ... 11/03/05 - 20050246574 - Non-volatile semiconductor memory device When a non-volatile memory write error occurs in a card storage device containing a non-volatile memory and an error correction circuit, write data is read from the non-volatile memory and a check is made if the error can be corrected by the error correction circuit. If the error can be ... 11/03/05 - 20050246573 - Data managing method for memory apparatus A block correlation table includes block addresses of unusable block portions in an irreversibly writeable memory and includes addresses of associated substitute block portions in the irreversibly writeable memory. A request for data stored at a logical address is received from a host processor. A physical address in the irreversibly ... 11/03/05 - 20050246572 - Fault tolerant data storage device Aspects of the invention incorporate a method and a system of providing fault tolerant data recovery in one or more data storage drives of a data storage device. The method of implementing fault tolerance in a data storage device may comprise storing information related to one or more data pools ... 11/03/05 - 20050246571 - Method for processing instructions The invention relates to a method for executing instructions in a processor, according to which an instruction to be executed of a program memory is addressed by a program control unit by means of a program counter reading of a program counter that operates in said unit. The addressed instruction ... 10/27/05 - 20050240803 - Storage system, storage device, and remote copy method A first data transfer module sends update data to be written into a primary volume to a second data transfer module; the second data transfer module stores the update data into a secondary volume, stores differential data written to a storage address for the update data in the secondary volume ... 10/27/05 - 20050240802 - Disc array device and diagnostic control method thereof A disc array device is one in which a hardware diagnosis after shipment of the disc array device can be made at short times during an operation of the device and a diagnostic rate is also enhanced and an internal failure of a LSI can be detected at device level. ... 10/27/05 - 20050240801 - Method for scrubbing regions in central storage Memory is scrubbed by an improved non-linear method giving scrubbing preference to the central storage region having the characteristic of a high risk read-only memory such as the CPA region to prevent the accumulation of temporary data errors. The chip row on which the CPA resides is scrubbed after each ... 10/13/05 - 20050229030 - Storage system The present invention allows a pair to be formed between a plurality of discrete volumes and the progress thereof to be managed by means of a remote operation from a management server. The management server 10 instructs respective host computers 20, 30 to generate configuration files 23, 33. Next, the ... 10/13/05 - 20050229029 - Method and intelligent slave device transfer control unit for implementing seamless error resumption in a shared memory bus structure A method and apparatus are provided for implementing seamless error resumption in a shared memory bus structure. Controls and data are stored for each read operation and each write operation. Each read operation and each write operation is monitored to determine when an error has occurred for either a read ... 10/06/05 - 20050223266 - Storage system and a method for diagnosing failure of the storage system A storage system includes at least one storage medium, at least one controller to control the storage medium, and a communication path to connect the storage medium and the controller in a loop for communication between the controller and the storage medium, wherein a failure diagnosis is performed to locate ... 10/06/05 - 20050223265 - Memory testing A memory subsystem may be usable in an electronic system. The memory subsystem may comprise a memory controller and a plurality of memory modules coupled to the memory controller. The memory module may be isolated wherein transactions that target the isolated memory module can complete without loss of data and ... 09/29/05 - 20050216787 - Method of calculating parity for surviving dual drive failures in a disk array A disk array utilizes a surviving relationship algorithm for generating parity terms. During a drive failure, a script corresponding to the failure mode (e.g., single storage element failure or dual storage element failure) is executed. The script reconstructs data by deriving a surviving relationship matrix from a seed matrix, sending ... 09/22/05 - 20050210315 - Access log storage system and digital multi-function apparatus Access log storing system (20) to save access history from outside the system as log data having a first memory (70) to save log data, a second memory (80) to also save log data and a storage control device (50) to switch the log data storage destination from memory (70) ... 09/22/05 - 20050210314 - Method for operating storage system In a disk array device 1 at a main site, a copy 4 of a RAID group 3 is generated. In-frame mirroring is used to generate this copy. The RAID group 4 is removed from the disk array device 1 by an operator and transported to a back-up site. The ... 09/15/05 - 20050204185 - Detecting and identifying data loss In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment provides, in response to a data read request for requested data, allocating an area of memory to the requested data, where the memory area is divided into at least one memory chunk. A seed value is written to ... 09/08/05 - 20050198553 - Disk array apparatus and control method for the same The present invention relates to provide a technology which can detect a disk drive with degradation in the performance even if the disk drive itself does not comprise a function to detect degradation in the performance and which can realize a disk array apparatus which meets a request of a ... 09/01/05 - 20050193233 - Method for testing and programming memory devices and system for same A method and system are provided for programming a plurality of memory devices arranged in parallel. In one embodiment of the present invention, the plurality of memory devices comprises first and second memory devices, and the method comprises providing successively the first address to the first memory device and the ... 09/01/05 - 20050193232 - System and method for persistent ram disk The contents of a RAM disk are copied to an image file in nonvolatile memory on power-down and copied back on reboot to provide an appearance of persistence. A locking method can use in-use tables to limit access to the same blocks of data in a RAM disk. ... 09/01/05 - 20050193231 - San/ storage self-healing/capacity planning system and method The storage self-healing/capacity planning system and method enables SAN resources to be reserved by allowing one or more policies to be set up for the resources. A conformance check is made, for example, upon receiving an event associated with the one or more resources, to ensure that the event occurring ... 09/01/05 - 20050193230 - Metadata access during error handling routines A data storage control unit is coupled to one or more host devices and to one or more physical storage units. Data is stored in one of the storage units and, for data integrity, copied to another storage unit. An updated state of the copy process (metadata) is maintained and ... 08/25/05 - 20050188250 - Information processing device, information processing method, and computer program An information processing device, information processing method, and computer program are provided. The present invention provides a management table that includes three pages. A pair of first and second pages is alternately used as a valid page and an invalid page to secure the data. The valid page is copied ... 08/25/05 - 20050188249 - Error correction within a cache memory A cache memory 2 includes error bits corresponding to each line of data. An error detecting circuit uses these error bits 12, 14, 16, 18 to detect if a soft error has occurred within the data of a cache line. If such an error has occurred, then the line may ... 08/25/05 - 20050188248 - Scalable storage architecture The Scalable Storage Architecture SSA system integrates everything necessary for network storage and provides highly scalable and redundant storage space. The SSA comprises integrated and instantaneous back-up for maintaining data integrity in such a way as to make external backup unnecessary. The SSA also provides archiving and Hierarchical Storage Management ... 08/25/05 - 20050188247 - Disk array system and fault-tolerant control method for the same A disk array system where a plurality of SATA drive enclosures are connected through an FC loop is made capable of continuing to process data even in the event of a fault. When the system is normally operated, a first system controller and a second system controller execute read/write operations ... 08/25/05 - 20050188246 - Persistent worldwide names assigned to removable media storage Disclosed are a system, a method, and article of manufacture to provide for managing removable storage media that is identified by a persistent worldwide name. SAN storage management is enhanced by preserving the persistent worldwide names assigned to removable storage media when it is necessary to replace the removable storage ... 08/25/05 - 20050188245 - Frame validation A method according to one embodiment may include receiving a frame, determining a frame type of the frame, accessing a location of memory associated with the frame type, the location comprising at least one programmable data element, and checking a validity of the frame in response to data in the ... 08/25/05 - 20050188244 - Method and apparatus for retry calculation in an optical disk device A method for determining a maximum number of attempted retry operations when a read error occurs in an optical disk device. The method includes the steps of receiving an RF signal from a pickup of the optical disk device, detecting an envelope of the RF signal, asserting a defect signal ... 08/11/05 - 20050177765 - Storage sub-system having expanded data read A storage sub-system employs a staging control information table by which staging of data to be read and redundant data thereof can be executed together to reduce response time in the event of a data read failure. The staging control information table also permits pre-read staging to be executed in ... 08/11/05 - 20050177764 - System and method of selection and communication of a disk for storage of a coredump This invention provides a system and method for selecting and communicating a single disk (a “coredump disk”) for use in a coredump procedure by a failed file server (or filer). A selection method on the failed filer determines the “best candidate” coredump disk according to a predetermined set of criteria. ... 07/21/05 - 20050160308 - Failure recovery for digital video recorders A method for DVR (digital video recorder) recovery from interruptions is described. Interruptions include power failures, primary storage device failure, Emergency Alert broadcasts, loss of signal (LOS), etc. Upon detecting that an interruption has occurred, the DVR determines the duration of the interruption and consults a saved “journal” of DVR ... 07/21/05 - 20050160307 - Method, system, and program for generating parity data Provided are a method, system, and program for generating parity data when updating old data stored in an array of storage devices in a data organization type which utilizes parity data. In one embodiment, a logic engine has plural registers or store queues in which new data obtained in a ... 07/14/05 - 20050154936 - Information processing equipment and data transfer method Provided is information processing equipment capable of efficiently performing data transfer restarted after it is suspended because a possibility of being affected by an impact derived from dropping or the like is predicted or detected. During transfer of data from an HDD, an amount-of-transferred data meter counts in real time ... 06/30/05 - 20050144511 - Disk array system with fail-over and load-balance functions A disk array system with fail-over and load-balance functions for storing data from a host includes a microprocessor; software providing fail-over and load-balance functions for controlling and handling operation of the host; a plurality of first buses for transmitting data output from the microprocessor, and having a plurality of first ... 06/30/05 - 20050144510 - Cache search accelerator A search engine of a hard disk drive is used to search both a cache list and a defect list. ... 06/30/05 - 20050144509 - Cache search accelerator method A search engine of a hard disk drive is used to search both cache lists and defect lists. ... 06/30/05 - 20050144508 - Onboard indicator A system and method for indicating the service status of serviceable elements of a subassembly stores the service status in a memory using a host controller. When the subassembly is removed from the host controller, the memory may be accessed using a second circuit and separate power supply, and indicators ... 06/23/05 - 20050138465 - Changing a mode of a storage subsystem in a system A system includes a storage subsystem capable of being set in at least a first mode and a second mode. When operating the storage subsystem in the first mode, redundant information is stored in a first portion of the storage subsystem in the first mode. An indication is received to ... 06/23/05 - 20050138464 - Scratch fill using scratch tracking table A method and system of managing spatially related defects on a data storage media surface in a data storage device includes operations of identifying defect locations on the media surface, determining whether the location of an identified defect is within a predetermined window of another identified defect location on the ... 06/16/05 - 20050132250 - Persistent memory device for backup process checkpoint states A system is described that includes a network interface attached to a persistent memory unit. The persistent memory unit is configured to receive checkpoint data from a primary process, and to provide access to the checkpoint data for use in a backup process, which provides recovery capability in the event ... 06/16/05 - 20050132249 - Apparatus method and system for fault tolerant virtual memory management A fault tolerant synchronized virtual memory manager for use in a load sharing environment manages memory allocation, memory mapping, and memory sharing in a first processor, while maintaining synchronization of the memory space of the first processor with the memory space of at least one partner processor. In one embodiment, ... 06/16/05 - 20050132248 - Data recovery for virtual ordered writes for multiple storage devices Recovering data provided in chunks to a plurality of secondary storage devices includes, for each of the secondary storage devices, discarding data corresponding chunks for which all data thereof has not been received, and, for each of the secondary storage devices, restoring a chunk of data thereto where all of ... 06/02/05 - 20050120261 - Apparatus for pid address protection and method thereof A protecting device installed in an optical storage system for protecting a plurality of physical identification data synchronous signals includes a synchronous pattern detecting device, a data synchronous signal insertion device for adding the amount of data synchronous signals to a first predetermined number, a counting/reloading device for sequentially counting ... 06/02/05 - 20050120260 - Image forming apparatus and control method of an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is mounted with a replacement component having a storage device and includes a processing unit that controls operation of the image forming apparatus by executing a control program and a reading/writing device that writes and reads data to and from the storage device under control of ... 06/02/05 - 20050120259 - Information processing system and method An information processing system comprises a storage and a plurality of information processing apparatuses requesting data input/output from the storage. The information processing apparatus comprises an error detection section, a changeover evaluation section, and a changeover section. The error detection section detects an error occurred on a path according to ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |