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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Edgar R. Cordero, Round Rock, TX (US);
Timothy J. Dell, Colchester, VT (US);
Joab D. Henderson, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Jeffrey A. Sabrowski, Leander, TX (US);
Anuwat Saetow, Austin, TX (US);
Saravanan Sethuraman, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for monitoring a first Error Correcting Code (ECC) device for failure and replacing the first ECC device with a second ECC device if the first ECC device begins to fail or fails. In a step, an exemplary embodiment performs a loopback test on an ECC device if a specified number of correctable errors is exceeded or if an uncorrectable error occurs. In another step, an exemplary embodiment replaces an ECC device that fails the loopback test with an ECC device that passes a loopback test.