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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akil Houston, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/02 ; G11B 1/904 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/02 ; G11B 1/904 ;
Abstract
A disk drive contains at least one sector that is protected from erasure, such as an erasure that may occur during reformatting. The sector(s) is used to store information related to one or more tests that may be performed on the disk drive and/or on other devices of a computer system in which the disk drive is located. This information may be used to facilitate a subsequent evaluation of the disk drive and/or computer system.