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Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2012
Applicants:

Brian John Higley, Longmont, CO (US);

Bradley John Gill, Longmont, CO (US);

Inventors:

Brian John Higley, Longmont, CO (US);

Bradley John Gill, Longmont, CO (US);

Assignee:

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G11B 27/36 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 27/36 (2013.01); G06F 11/3476 (2013.01); G06F 11/3058 (2013.01); G06F 2201/81 (2013.01); G06F 2201/86 (2013.01); G06F 11/0727 (2013.01); G06F 11/0766 (2013.01); G11B 2220/63 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for providing autonomous event logging and retrieval for failure analysis. In one implementation, storage device firmware monitors and records events (e.g., storage device errors and/or failures) to the storage device flash in substantially real time from power on of the storage device to power off. Additionally, diagnostic data relating to an event, including a time stamp and storage device environmental conditions are recorded. The logged event data may be utilized to streamline failure analysis by determining whether the storage device failed and if so, when the storage device failed and what the conditions of the storage device were at the time of the failure. Such information may be used for failure, warranty, integrator, and/or troubleshooting analysis.


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