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

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the one or more available regions based on the capacity designation and the health status index for the one or more regions further comprises:
based, at least in part, on receipt of a scale media command from the user, referencing, by the one or more computer processors, the health status index saved in the cartridge memory of the data storage cartridge, wherein the scale media command includes the capacity designation selected by the user, and wherein the capacity designation is a desired reduced capacity for the data storage cartridge; and
determining, by the one or more computer processors, one or more healthy regions that exclude one or more damaged regions on the data storage cartridge that interfere with reading and writing operations.