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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2005
Mostafa Pakzad, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA (US);
Peter Cheok Him Pang, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Mohammad R. Bahadori, Irvine, CA (US);
Joseph M. Viglione, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Roma Leang, Irvine, CA (US);
Mostafa Pakzad, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA (US);
Peter Cheok Him Pang, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Mohammad R. Bahadori, Irvine, CA (US);
Joseph M. Viglione, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Roma Leang, Irvine, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a system and method for disk drive grouping in a multi-cell disk drive test system. A test platform includes a plurality of cells. Each cell is configured to receive and to provide communication with a disk drive. An automated loader/unloader is coupled to a test computer and is responsive to the test computer. The automated loader/unloader is configured to identify disk drives and to selectively load and unload disk drives into and out of the plurality of cells. Particularly, once the automated loader/unloader has identified a first disk drive, the test computer is configured to: determine a grouping criteria based upon the first disk drive; detect a subsequent disk drive having the same grouping criteria as the first disk drive; and cause the automated loader/unloader to load the subsequent disk drive into one of the plurality of cells.