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

Claim 0:
1. A method for scaling media utilizing healthy regions of a data storage cartridge, the method comprising:
determining, by one or more computer processors, a health status index for one or more regions of a data storage cartridge;
recording, by the one or more computer processors, the health status index to a cartridge memory and to a housekeeping dataset of the data storage cartridge;
determining, by the one or more computer processors, 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
returning, by the one or more computer processors, the one or more available regions and a reduced capacity for the data storage cartridge to a user.