Patent ID: 11907048
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A computer program product for scaling media utilizing healthy regions of a data storage cartridge, the computer program product comprising:
one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the stored program instructions comprising:
program instructions to determine a health status index for one or more regions of a data storage cartridge;
program instructions to record the health status index to a cartridge memory and housekeeping dataset of the data storage cartridge;
program instructions to determine one or more available regions of the data storage cartridge, based, at least in part, on a capacity designation and the health status index for the one or more regions; and
program instructions to return the one or more available regions and a reduced capacity for the data storage cartridge to a user.