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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2004
Applicants:
Andrew B. Mcneill, Jr., Morrisville, NC (US);
Kenneth R. Schneebeli, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Andrew B. McNeill, Jr., Morrisville, NC (US);
Kenneth R. Schneebeli, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Aspects of increasing the quality and reliability of desktop class storage disks in enterprise storage applications are described. The aspects include monitoring a number of idle states and busy states in a disk drive, and limiting performance of read/write commands by the disk drive based on whether a sufficient number of idle states has been monitored to avoid exceeding a duty cycle rating of the disk drive.