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

Claim 14:
15. A computer system for scaling media utilizing healthy regions of a data storage cartridge, the computer system comprising:
one or more computer processors;
one or more computer readable storage media; and
program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, 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.