System and method to avoid disk lube pooling

Details System and method to avoid disk lube pooling System and method to avoid disk lube pooling

2007-03-28

2010-10-19

Mercedes, Dismery E (Department: 2627)

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Automatic control of a recorder mechanism

Synchronizing moving-head moving-record recorders

C360S059000, C360S077020, C360S075000, C360S078040

Reexamination Certificate

active

07817370

ABSTRACT:
A system and method to avoid disk lube pooling is presented. A track access monitor tracks the number of times that a program accesses a particular track located on a hard drive. When the track access monitor determines that the number of track accesses to a particular track exceed a track access threshold, the track access monitor invokes a sequence of events to scan adjacent tracks in order to uniformly redistribute lubrication over the hard drive. In one embodiment, the track access monitor incrementally performs the adjacent track scanning during hard drive idle periods, such as when the system waits for a password from a user or when the operating system conserves power and idles the hard drive due to lack of activity.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4789913 (1988-12-01), Gregory et al.
patent: 5650900 (1997-07-01), Wei et al.
patent: 6356405 (2002-03-01), Gui et al.
patent: 6442705 (2002-08-01), Lamberts
patent: 6678113 (2004-01-01), Feliss et al.
patent: 6760175 (2004-07-01), Smith
patent: 6822819 (2004-11-01), Gillis et al.
patent: 6900957 (2005-05-01), Gillis et al.
patent: 6947234 (2005-09-01), Lamberts et al.
patent: 7076604 (2006-07-01), Thelin
patent: 7082007 (2006-07-01), Liu et al.
patent: 7149046 (2006-12-01), Coker et al.
patent: 7177979 (2007-02-01), Kuwamura
patent: 2002/0075585 (2002-06-01), Luong et al.
patent: 2006/0066971 (2006-03-01), Alex et al.
patent: 2006/0245102 (2006-11-01), Cheng
patent: 2007/0211363 (2007-09-01), Nagashima et al.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

System and method to avoid disk lube pooling does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with System and method to avoid disk lube pooling, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and System and method to avoid disk lube pooling will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-4196109