Appeal No. 95-1308
Application 07/999,502
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
final rejection of claims 3-5, 9, 11, and 12, all of the claims pending in the application. Claim 1, 2,
6-8, 10, and 13 have been cancelled.
The invention is directed to a method and system to record direct access storage device
operating statistics, operating conditions (temperature, vibration, power supply output voltage, and
transducer-to-medium clearance), and error occurrences in partitions of a non-volatile, non-moving
storage which partitions can be accessed by an external connection port while bypassing the device
controller.
Claims 11 and 12 are reproduced below as amended in the Amendment After Final received
January 24, 1994 (Paper No. 9). The copy of the claims in the Appendix to the appeal brief does not
contain the amendments. Note the two errors in claim 11.
11. A secondary data storage system for a host computer system comprising:
a rotatable data storage medium;
transducer means positionable with respect to the
rotatable data storage medium for physically altering the rotatable data
storage medium and for generating a read back signal in response to detection
of physical alterations of the rotatable data storage medium;
processing means connected to the transducer means for
filtering data from of [sic] the read back signal and generating indication of
error in the data;
a plurality of operating condition monitoring devices
including, [sic, ":"] means for measuring ambient temperature around the
secondary data storage system, means for measuring vibration of the
secondary data storage system, means for measuring power supply output
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