REPORTING ERRORS TO A DATA STORAGE DEVICE

摘要

An error mechanism provides stored error information to assist in determining the cause of failure of a storage device such as a hard disk drive. The error mechanism gathers information surrounding an error event from various software and hardware components in the system. An event command is sent to the storage device that includes the gathered information. The storage device stores the gathered information from the event command in a log on the storage device. After the storage device is removed from the system the error information in the log can be used to determine the cause of the failure. The event command may be standardized into an existing industry communication protocol or be vendor specific.

主权项

1. A computer system comprising:
at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a data storage device that comprises an event log; and a first error mechanism residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor that gathers information surrounding an error event from components of the computer system and sends an event command to the data storage device that causes the data storage device to log error information from the event command in the event log on the storage device.