Sending failure information from a solid state drive (ssd) to a host device
AssigneeLSI Corporation
InventorRoss John STENFORT
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Abstract
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for sending failure information from a solid state drive (SSD) to a host device. In operation, an error is detected during an operation associated with a solid state drive. Additionally, a command is received for failure information from a host device. Further, the failure information is sent from the solid state drive to the host device, the failure information including failure information associated with the solid state drive.
Claims19
(canceled)
A method, comprising:
- detecting an error during an operation associated with a solid state drive (SSD);
- receiving from a host device a command to return failure information;
- and
- sending the failure information from the SSD to the host device in response to the receiving, the failure information comprising information relevant to the SSD being comprised of flash memory as a storage media.
A computer program product embodied on a tangible computer readable medium, comprising:
- computer code for detecting an error during an operation associated with a solid state drive (SSD);
- computer code for receiving from a host device a command to return failure information;
- and
- computer code for sending the failure information from the SSD to the host device, the failure information comprising information relevant to the SSD being comprised of flash memory as a storage media.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a solid state drive (SSD) configured to:
- detect an error during an operation associated with the SSD;
- receive from a host device a command to return failure information;
- and
- send the failure information from the SSD to the host device, the failure information comprising information relevant to the SSD being comprised of flash memory as a storage media.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.