Burn-in diagnostic technique for a disc driving apparatus

Claim 1

A disc driving apparatus comprising: storage means for storage of a self-diagnostic program which is adapted for execution in a burn-in environment, said storage means being disposed within a housing which encloses said disc driving apparatus; a first memory disposed within said housing for storing mode data representing a normal mode or a burn-in mode; self-diagnostic program executing means for executing said self-diagnostic program stored in said storage means, said self-diagnostic program executing means being disposed within said housing; control means for activating said self-diagnostic program executing means only when the mode data stored in said first memory represent s the burn-in mode, and for controlling said first memory to change the mode data stored in said first memory to represent the normal mode; and a second memory disposed in said housing for storing results of an execution of said self-diagnostic program from said self-diagnostic program executing means; wherein said self-executing diagnostic program executing means executes said self-diagnostic program based on burn-in parameters which determine the operation of said self-diagnostic program; and wherein said burn-in parameters determine test time, test dwell time, a number of tests, and a read/write method.