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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2013
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas R. Prohofsky, Edina, MN (US);
Sumanth Jannyavula Venkata, Shakopee, MN (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/10 (2013.01); G06F 3/06 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data storage system may generally have a controller connected to multiple separate data storage devices in a distributed network. Each data storage device may be configured with a user invisible diagnostic region where diagnostic information is stored in logical block addresses (LBA) beyond a storage capacity of the respective data storage devices and the diagnostic information can be accessible via read and write requests to LBA beyond the storage capacity of the respective data storage devices.