Patent ID: 6950967

Claim:
An automated manufacture process test system resident upon a disk drive that performs a manufacture test process on the disk drive once the disk drive is installed and operating within a computer system, the test system comprising: a monitor that determines whether any user command from the computer system is pending or the computer system is idle; a processing module that performs the manufacture test process on a disk of the disk drive, wherein the manufacture test process is performed on a portion of the disk for the first time and in a particular manner depending on whether the computer system has issued the user command or the computer system is idle, the manufacture test process includes at least one of flaw mapping, embedded runout compensation (ERC) and final drive verification, and the processing module performs the flaw mapping such that a first flaw mapping test is performed when a user command for operating the disk drive is pending and a second flaw mapping test is performed when the computer is system is idle; and a controller that tracks performance of the manufacture test process such that counters stored in a memory of the disk drive indicate which portion of the disk has been processed by the manufacture test process.