Detection and recovery of dropped writes in storage devices

Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a request to write data to a storage medium is received. The data requested to be written to the storage medium is stored in a cache. A writing of the data is initiated to the storage medium. A periodic determination is made as to wh...

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Hauptverfasser: Durica, William John, Hajji, M. Amine, Hyde, II, Joseph Smith, Venturi, Ronald J
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a request to write data to a storage medium is received. The data requested to be written to the storage medium is stored in a cache. A writing of the data is initiated to the storage medium. A periodic determination is made as to whether the stored data in the cache is the same as the data written to the storage medium.