Patent ID: 7076391
Filing Date: 2006-07-11
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A method of testing a plurality of disk drives in a test platform configured to administer a sequential series of tests on the plurality of disk drives, the test platform including a plurality of slots that are configured to receive and to provide communication with respective ones of the plurality of disk drives, the plurality of slots being segregated into a plurality of groups, each group being configured to satisfy predetermined environmental, communication bandwidth and test schedule requirements of the disk drives to be loaded therein, the method comprising: identifying disk drives that are ready to undergo designated ones of the series of tests; loading the identified disk drives into empty slots of groups appropriate to the designated ones of the sequential series of tests and administering at least one test of the sequential series of tests to the loaded disk drives; without compromising the environmental, communication bandwidth and test schedule requirements of each group, asynchronously: