Patent ID: 8116182

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: an optical disc drive; a storage device; a measuring module in the optical disc drive, and configured to measure a value related to an operation of a predetermined motor in the optical disc drive during a time period of power-up of the optical disc drive; a measurement value reception module configured to receive a measurement value related to the operation of the predetermined motor from the optical disc drive in response to an event of being requested to turn off the power of the optical disc drive, and to store the received measurement value in the storage device, the received measurement value indicating the operation of the predetermined motor during one power cycle from power-on of the optical disc drive to power-off of the optical disc drive; a totaling module configured to perform a totalization process of totalizing a plurality of measurement values stored in the storage device, the plurality of measurement values corresponding to a plurality of power cycles of the optical disc drive; and a determination module configured to determine a symptom of a fault of the optical disc drive based on a result of totalization, wherein the totaling module is further configured to determine in response to power-on of the information processing apparatus, whether a predetermined time period is passed since a time of previous totalization process, and perform the totalization process if the predetermined time period is passed since the time of the previous totalization process.