Automatic acquisition of physical characteristics of a hard drive
US6763430B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 19, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jul 13, 2004 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 5, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11B2020/10916
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A data gathering program executing on a host computer acquires the physical characteristics of an arbitrary disk drive. A variety of physical parameters of the disk drive can thus be discovered by the host computer system, including platter rotation time, the number and size of each track, the skew of the tracks relative to one another, and head seek, settle, and setup times.
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