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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2004
Sherri Gavarre, Fremont, CA (US);
Doug Coatney, Cupertino, CA (US);
Sherri Gavarre, Fremont, CA (US);
Doug Coatney, Cupertino, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A group of disks is monitored for indications of a detected error. After receiving an indication that a first disk in the group has had a detected error, determining a consecutive number of detected errors for the first disk. Determining if the consecutive number of detected errors exceeds a threshold, and if the consecutive number of detected errors does exceed the threshold, identifying the first disk as a suspect disk. In response to determining that the first disk had the most recent detected error, incrementing the number of consecutive errors of the first disk by one. If a disk other than the first disk had a most recent detected error, setting the consecutive number of detected errors of the disk other than the first disk to one, and setting the consecutive number of detected errors of the first disk to zero.