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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006

Filed:

Oct. 19, 2001
Applicants:

Donald Kane, San Diego, CA (US);

Daniel P. Drogichen, Leucadia, CA (US);

Inventors:

Donald Kane, San Diego, CA (US);

Daniel P. Drogichen, Leucadia, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for error recovery in a system. The apparatus comprises a directory cache adapted to store at least one entry and a control unit. The control unit is adapted to determine if at least one uncorrectable error exists in the directory cache and to place the directory cache offline in response to determining that the error is uncorrectable. The method comprises detecting an error in data stored in a storage device in the system, and determining if the detected error is correctable. The method further comprises making at least a portion of the storage device unavailable to one or more resources in the system in response to determining that the error is uncorrectable.


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