Disk drive or any serial attached device logging a cable...

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Input/output data processing – Peripheral monitoring

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C324S543000, C714S056000, C713S320000

Reexamination Certificate

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11255435

ABSTRACT:
An information storage device is disclosed (such as a disk drive) comprising an interface for connecting to a host through a cable, and control circuitry for communicating with the host over the cable by executing a communication process. The communication processes comprises the steps of transmitting a communication request to the host over the cable and waiting to receive a response from the host over the cable. A cable loss event is logged if the host fails to respond after executing the communication process at least twice. Performing the communication process multiple times before logging a cable loss event helps ensure a communication failure is actually due to a faulty cable connection.

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