Patent ID: 9177669
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F,G11B

Abstract:
1. A storage-medium diagnosis device comprising: a storage unit that stores therein respective diagnosis results of subregions of a storage region of a storage medium; a diagnosis-region identifying unit that identifies a diagnosis region to be diagnosed next on the basis of the respective diagnosis results of the subregions stored in the storage unit; a diagnosis executing unit that accesses and diagnoses the diagnosis region identified by the diagnosis-region identifying unit, and stores a result of the diagnosis in the storage unit; and a higher-access executing unit that accesses, upon receiving an access request from a higher-level device, a region corresponding to the access request, accesses and diagnoses a predetermined subregion with the access request, and stores a result of the access as a diagnosis result in the storage unit, when the diagnosis is being performed by the diagnosis executing unit.