An Expert System for the Fault Diagnosis of Hard Disk Drive Test System

Hard Disk Drive (HDD) test system is the equipment for the final test of HDD product by iterative read/write/seek test. This paper proposes an expert system for the fault diagnosis of HDD test systems. The purposed expert system is composed with two cascade inference, fuzzy logic and conventional binary logic. The fuzzy logic determines the possibility of the system fault using the test history data, then, the binary logic inferences the fault location of the test system. The proposed expert system is tested in SAMSUNG HDD product line, KUMI, KOREA, and shows satisfactory results.