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Process for accommodating bad disk pages in an electronic printing system

US5249288A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 1, 1991
Grant dateSep 28, 1993
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Expiry dateApr 1, 2011

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B2220/20
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic printing system with plural hard disks for storing system files, each disk having a bad page table, from the individual disk bad page tables, generating a composite bad page table, providing a common allocation table for controlling allocation of disk file space for storing system files on the disks, and precluding allocating of system files to areas of the disks identified in the composite bad page table as being unusable.

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