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US 8,078,421 B1Granted
Multi-cell disk drive test system providing a power recovery mode
AssigneeWestern Digital Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAmarnath Shastry, Clinton A. Bell
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AssigneeWestern Digital Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAmarnath Shastry, Clinton A. Bell
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A multi-cell disk drive test system that provides a power recovery mode is disclosed. The multi-cell disk drive test system includes a test platform having a plurality of cells configured to receive and to provide communication with disk drives loaded therein, respectively, and test logic. The test logic is coupled to a cell and is configured to operate a test application to: execute a series of test modules to test a disk drive loaded in the cell; switch from a normal mode to a power recovery mode responsive to a power recovery flag relating to a power failure; and in the power recovery mode, read a test sequence index identifying a last completed test module before the power failure and execute a subsequent series of test modules following the last completed test module for the disk drive.
A multi-cell disk drive test system comprising:
A method for providing a power recovery mode in a multi-cell disk drive test system used for testing a plurality of disk drives including a test platform having a plurality of cells wherein each cell is configured to receive and to provide communication with a disk drive loaded therein, the method comprising:
In a multi-cell disk drive test system used for testing a plurality of disk drives that includes a test platform having a plurality of cells, wherein each cell is configured to receive and to provide communication with a disk drive loaded therein, a non-transitory processor-readable medium having stored thereon instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the following operations comprising:
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