Patent ID: 7500135
Filing Date: 2009-03-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of providing fault tolerant renaming of a hard disk drive in a data storage device, said data storage device comprising one or more hard disk drives, said method comprising: executing a set of software instructions resident in a memory of said data storage device when a disk name field of a disk header of one of said one or more hard disk drives contains an error, said error occurring during said renaming; first locating a first field within a first pool information block of a partition of said hard disk drive; second locating a second field within a second pool information block of said partition of said hard disk drive; first identifying a first disk name within said first field; second identifying a second disk name within said second field; comparing said first disk name with said second disk name; and writing said first disk name into said disk name field of said disk header of said hard disk drive if said first disk name is the same as said second disk name.