Patent ID: 8661288

Claim:
A system for performing diagnostics on a removable media drive, the system comprising: a monitoring unit configured to collect information about a media access to the media drive and a media access to a removable media contained in the media drive; a storage unit having a threshold table with at least one threshold value for the media access to the media drive; and a processing unit configured to compare the collected information of the monitoring unit to the at least one threshold value contained in the threshold table and configured to determine diagnostic data relating to the removable media drive in accordance with the comparison, where the monitoring unit is configured to collect media session information in a media drive table where a media session begins with an insertion of the removable media into the media drive and concludes when the removable media is ejected from the media drive, and is configured to collect drive session information in a drive session table stored separately from the media session information, the drive session information being collected until the removable media drive is exchanged, and where the processing unit determines the remaining lifetime by comparing data from the drive session table to the threshold values contained in the threshold table, and using a determination of an evolution of the readability of the removable media in the media drive based on the information stored in the different media tables.