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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2000
Dennis R. Chan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Theofilos George Fkiaras, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In summary, preferred embodiments disclose a system, method, and program for generating and displaying disk drive performance data. A center stripe of one sector of one track on a recordable surface is read. An indication is made indicating whether the read operation to the center of the sector succeeded. Each offset stripe from the center of the track in the sector within the track is read and indication is made as to whether each read operation to each offset stripe succeeded. Output in human observable format is generated indicating whether each offset stripe and the center stripe for the sector and track were read successfully or could not be read.