Write avoidance areas around bad blocks on a hard disk drive platter
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1. A computer program product including computer readable program code embodied on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer program product including:
- computer readable program code for identifying the location of a bad block on a platter of a hard disk drive;
computer readable program code for determining an avoidance area extending from the bad block and encompassing the bad block; and
computer readable program code for preventing data from being written to the avoidance area.
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Abstract
A method and computer program product identify the location of a bad block on a disk platter of a hard disk drive, determine an avoidance area extending from the bad block, and prevent data from being written to the avoidance area.
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19 Claims
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1. A computer program product including computer readable program code embodied on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the computer program product including:
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computer readable program code for identifying the location of a bad block on a platter of a hard disk drive; computer readable program code for determining an avoidance area extending from the bad block and encompassing the bad block; and computer readable program code for preventing data from being written to the avoidance area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
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identifying the location of a bad block on a disk platter of a hard disk drive; determining an avoidance area extending from the bad block and encompassing the bad block; and preventing data from being written to the avoidance area. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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