JP2000322814A - Failure monitor device for recording medium drive, failure monitor method for recording medium drive and recording medium storing failure monitor program for recording medium drive - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To monitor the abnormality of a recording medium drive without being influenced by environmental noise. SOLUTION: A microphone 4 catches the operation sound of a hard disc drive 1. A voice collation unit 32 in a voice board 3 collates the sound quality of the operation sound caught by the microphone 4 with the sound quality of the normal operation sound of the hard disc drive 1 which is registered beforehand to judge whether the operation of the hard disc drive 1 is normal or not. The judgement result is displayed on a failure display unit 3 or a display device 5.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a failure monitoring of a recording medium driving device for recording a signal on a recording medium such as a hard disk or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium. Related to the device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in personal computers and the like, the speed of a hard disk drive (HDD) has been increased,
With the increase in capacity, it has become increasingly important to monitor failures of hard disk drives. If the hard disk drive is physically damaged, the stored data cannot be recovered, so the effect is greatest.

[0003] As a method of fault monitoring, data is read from and written to a hard disk drive,
Checks are made to see if the data is different or corrupted. However, the above method is effective for an operating system (OS) of data or a personal computer.
It is difficult to check a hard disk drive for physical damage.

A hard disk drive is a hard disk drive.
There are many mechanical parts such as motors and arms, and often emit abnormal sounds before fatal physical damage occurs. JP 63
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 63163/1994 and Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 6-111458 disclose a magnetic disk drive which is designed to acquire an abnormal sound by paying attention to this point.

[0005]

In the conventional magnetic disk devices disclosed in the above publications, it is simply determined whether or not the level of the abnormal sound is equal to or higher than a predetermined value. Has been determined. Therefore, when the surrounding noise is loud, there is a possibility that the surrounding noise is detected and determined to be abnormal, resulting in erroneous determination. Further, only the abnormality is detected and notified, and the magnetic disk device is still driven after the notification. Therefore, there has been a problem that the state of the failure is deteriorated. Further, in addition to magnetic disk devices, CD-ROMs (Compact Disc Rea
d Only Memory) Other recording medium drive devices such as a drive device have the same problem as described above.

The present invention focuses on the fact that the operation sound of the storage device includes a unique sound quality different from the surrounding noise.
It is an object of various recording medium driving devices to be able to monitor an abnormality of the recording medium driving device without being affected by ambient noise. Another object of the present invention is to prevent data from being lost even when an abnormal state occurs in the recording medium driving device. It is another object of the present invention to prevent a failure state from deteriorating when an abnormality occurs in a recording medium driving device. It is another object of the present invention to monitor a failure of a recording medium driving device with an inexpensive configuration.

[0007]

A fault monitoring apparatus for a recording medium drive according to the present invention writes a signal on the recording medium or records the signal on the recording medium while rotating the recording medium by a rotation driving means. A recording medium driving device for reading out a signal, an operation sound obtaining unit for obtaining an operation sound of the recording medium driving device, and comparing the sound quality of the operation sound obtained by the operation sound obtaining unit with pre-registered sound quality data. Thus, the recording medium driving device is characterized by comprising a judging means for judging whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal, and a notifying means for notifying the judgment result by the judging means. The operating sound obtaining means obtains an operating sound of the recording medium driving device. The determining means determines whether the recording medium drive is normal based on the sound quality of the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquiring means. The notifying unit notifies a result of the determination by the determining unit.

Further, the fault monitoring device for a recording medium driving device according to the present invention is capable of writing a signal to the recording medium or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium while rotating the recording medium by a rotation driving means. A recording medium driving device that performs, a storage unit that registers a normal operation sound generated when the recording medium driving device is operating normally, an operation sound acquisition unit that acquires an operation sound of the recording medium driving device, Determining means for comparing the sound quality of the normal operation sound registered in the storage means with the sound quality of the operation sound obtained by the operation sound obtaining means to determine whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal; And notifying means for notifying the result of the judgment by the judging means. The storage unit registers a normal operation sound generated when the recording medium driving device is operating normally. The operating sound obtaining means obtains an operating sound of the recording medium driving device. The determining unit compares the sound quality of the normal operation sound registered in the storage unit with the sound quality of the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition unit to determine whether the recording medium driving device is normal. The notifying unit notifies a result of the determination by the determining unit.

Here, the determining means compares the time-dependent normal operation sound with the time-dependent operating sound acquired by the operation sound acquiring means to determine whether the operation of the recording medium driving device is to be performed. You may be comprised so that it may determine whether it is normal. Further, the determination unit may compare the frequency spectrum of the normal operation sound with the frequency spectrum of the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition unit to determine whether the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal. May be configured.

Further, the normal operation sound is generated when
At least one of operation, standby, and return after standby may be obtained by the operation sound obtaining means and registered in the storage means. Furthermore, an abnormal operation sound for determining that the operation of the recording medium driving device is abnormal is registered in the storage unit in advance, and the determination unit is configured to output the operation sound, the normal operation sound, and the normal operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition unit. It may be configured to determine whether the operation of the recording medium drive is normal by comparing the abnormal operation sound. The recording medium driving device may further include a storage unit that stores the data being processed when the determination unit determines that the data is abnormal. The recording medium driving device may be configured to include a stop unit that stops the operation of the recording medium driving device when the determination unit determines that the recording medium is abnormal.

A fault monitoring apparatus for a recording medium driving apparatus according to the present invention is a recording apparatus for writing a signal to the recording medium or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium while rotating the recording medium by a rotation driving means. A computer device including a medium drive device, a display device, and a CPU; storage means for registering a normal operation sound generated when the recording medium drive device is operating normally; Operating sound obtaining means for obtaining the operating sound, input means for converting the operating sound obtained by the operating sound obtaining means from analog to digital and outputting the sound, and sound quality of the normal operating sound registered in the storage means and the input means. Judging means for comparing the sound quality of the input operation sound with the sound quality of the input operation sound to judge whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal; With the revealed, it is characterized by displaying the determination result of said determination means to said display device. The storage unit registers a normal operation sound generated when the recording medium driving device is operating normally. The operating sound obtaining means obtains an operating sound of the recording medium driving device. The input means converts the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition means into analog /
Digitally converted and output. CPU of computer device
The determination means realized by comparing the sound quality of the normal operation sound registered in the storage means with the sound quality of the operation sound input from the input means, and determines whether the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal. judge. The determination result is displayed on a display device of the computer device.

Here, the determining means compares the time-dependent normal operation sound with the time-dependent operating sound acquired by the operation sound acquiring means, and determines whether the operation of the recording medium driving device is to be performed. You may be comprised so that it may determine whether it is normal. Further, the determination unit may compare the frequency spectrum of the normal operation sound with the frequency spectrum of the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition unit to determine whether the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal. May be configured.

According to the present invention, the recording medium driving device for writing a signal to the recording medium or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium while rotating the recording medium by the rotation driving means operates normally. Registering a normal operation sound that occurs when the recording medium driving device is operating sound with the operation sound obtaining unit; and registering the normal operation sound registered in the storage unit with the sound quality of the normal operation sound. Comparing the sound quality of the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition unit with the sound quality of the operation sound to determine whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal; and reporting the determination result. And a failure monitoring method for the recording medium driving device.

Here, the method may further comprise a step of storing the data being processed in the recording medium driving device when it is determined that the data is abnormal. The method may further include a step of stopping the operation of the recording medium driving device when it is determined that the recording medium driving device is abnormal.

Further, according to the present invention, a recording medium driving device for writing a signal to the recording medium or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium while rotating the recording medium by the rotation driving means normally operates. A process of registering a normal operation sound generated during operation in the storage unit, a process of acquiring the operation sound of the recording medium driving device by the operation sound acquisition unit, and a process of registering the normal operation sound registered in the storage unit by the determination unit. A process of comparing the sound quality of the operation sound with the sound quality of the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition unit to determine whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal; and informing the determination result by a notification unit. A recording medium characterized by recording a failure monitoring program of a recording medium driving device for performing processing.

Here, the recording medium may be recorded with a program for performing a process of storing data being processed in the recording medium driving device by a storage means when it is determined that the data is abnormal. Further, a program may be recorded for causing the stopping means to stop the operation of the recording medium driving device when the determining means determines that there is an abnormality.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In each of the drawings, parts that perform the same functions are denoted by the same reference numerals. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an outline of a fault monitoring device for a recording medium drive according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, an outline thereof will be described. A central processing unit (CPU) 2 includes a hard disk drive 1 as a recording medium driving device, an audio board 3, a display device 5 as a notifying means including a CRT and the like, and a CD-ROM. The ROM drive 6 is connected. Further, a microphone 4 is connected to the audio board 3 as operation sound obtaining means for obtaining the operation sound of the hard disk drive 1.

The hard disk drive 1 includes a hard disk, a motor for driving the hard disk and a hard disk drive mechanism, a magnetic head for recording signals on the hard disk and reading signals from the hard disk, and a magnetic head. A magnetic head driving mechanism for driving is incorporated.

As will be described later, the audio board 3 has a function as a first storage means, a function of converting the operation sound data of the hard disk drive 1 acquired by the microphone 4 from analog to digital (A / D), A function of pre-registering a normal operation sound or the like when the hard disk drive 1 is operating normally in the storage means; and a data of the operation sound data and the normal operation sound registered in the storage means. And a function of determining whether the hard disk drive 1 is operating normally or abnormally, a function of notifying the determination result, and a function of displaying failure.

As the data of the normal operation sound registered in the storage means in advance, for example, data obtained by digitizing the normal operation sound itself, data obtained by digitizing the time-varying normal operation sound, or the frequency spectrum of the normal operation sound Digitized data can be used. The data of the normal operation sound may be acquired by the microphone 4 in advance when the hard disk drive 1 is operating normally, and registered in the storage unit.

Further, the CD-ROM drive 6 stores a failure monitoring program for the recording medium driving device from the CD-ROM 7 as a recording medium on which the failure monitoring program for the recording medium driving device according to the embodiment of the present invention is recorded. It is for reading and operating the CPU 2 and the audio board 3. The CPU 2 displays the result of the determination on the display device 5. At this time, it may be displayed regardless of whether the determination result is normal or faulty, or
The display may be displayed on the display device 5 only when the determination result is a failure.

It is to be noted that, instead of the display device 5, a notifying means other than the display device 5 such as a method of giving an alarm sound may be used. When the result of the determination is abnormal, the CPU 2 controls the hard disk drive 1 to save data and stop the operation.

FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of the fault monitoring device of the recording medium driving device shown in FIG. 1, showing the first embodiment. In FIG. 2, a voice board 3 includes a voice input unit 33 as an input unit, a voice collating unit 32 as a determining unit, a fault notifying unit 31 as a determining unit and a fault notifying unit as a fault notifying unit, and a fault as a notifying unit. The display unit 34 is provided.

The voice input unit 33 A / D-converts the operation sound generated during the operation acquired by the microphone 4 as the sound acquisition means, and converts the sound into operation sound data.
Transfer to 2. The voice collating unit 32 collates the operation sound data transmitted from the voice input unit 33 with the previously registered normal operation sound data, and determines whether the hard disk drive 1 is operating normally or abnormally. judge. The result is sent to the failure notification unit 31.

As a method of realizing the sound collating unit 32, the sound quality of the normal operation sound (of various information included in the sound, not information of a simple signal level, but information of a unique sound included in the operation sound of the hard disk drive 1) This includes various information such as temporal change of sound, frequency spectrum, intonation, etc.) and the sound quality of the operation sound. For example, a method of comparing normal operation sound data and operation sound data with each other can be adopted. A method of comparing and collating waveforms along the time axis, or a method of frequency-converting normal operation sound data and operation sound data to compare and collate the frequency spectrum can be adopted. Further, each method of the known speech recognition technology can be used. The failure notification unit 31 sends the result to the CPU 2 and operates the failure display unit 34.

The CPU 2 displays the result from the failure notification unit 31 on the display device 5. At this time, if the result of the determination is "abnormal operation", the CPU 2 controls the hard disk drive 1 to save data and stop the operation. The hard disk drive 1, CPU 2,
The CD-ROM drive 6 and the display device 5 constitute a computer device such as a personal computer, and the hard disk drive 1 can be constituted by a built-in hard disk.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the processing of the CPU 2 and the audio board 3. This processing program is recorded on a CD-ROM 7 as a recording medium, and the program is read by a CD-ROM drive 6. Then, the processes of the CPU 2 and the audio board 3 are executed based on this program.

Hereinafter, the operation of the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. First, an operation sound (normal operation sound) generated when the hard disk drive 1 is operating normally is registered. The registered normal operation sound is registered in a first storage unit (not shown) provided in the voice verification unit 32 and configured by a nonvolatile memory or the like.
The registration operation is performed by obtaining a normal operation sound when the hard disk drive 1 is operating normally by the microphone 4 and registering the sound in the storage unit in the voice collation unit 32 (step A1).

The voice input section 33 is provided periodically or
Then, the operation sound of the hard disk drive 1 is acquired based on the request from the server and sent to the sound collating unit 32 (step A2). The voice collating unit 32 verifies the normal operation sound data registered as a normal sound in step A1 or the abnormal sound data registered in the storage means in advance, and determines whether the sound is normal or abnormal. A determination is made (steps A3, A4). At this time, since the operation sound of the hard disk drive 1 includes a unique sound quality different from the ambient noise, the operation sound of the hard disk drive 1 is normal or abnormal without being affected by the ambient noise. Can be determined with high accuracy.

If the result of the determination is normal, the display device 5 or the fault display unit 3
4 is displayed (step A5), and the process returns to step A2. If the determination result in step A4 is abnormal, the display device 5 or the failure display unit 34 via the failure notification unit 31
Is displayed (step A6), and the data being processed is stored in the hard disk drive 1 (step A6).
7), the operation of the hard disk drive 1 is stopped (step A8).

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a fault monitoring device for a recording medium drive according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
In the first embodiment, the voice board 3 is provided with the voice input unit 33, the voice collating unit 32, the fault notification unit 31, and the fault display unit 34. The embodiment differs from the embodiment in that the voice board 3 is provided with a voice input unit 33 and a fault display unit 34, and the CPU 2 is provided with the functions of a voice collating unit 22 and a fault notification unit 21. The other parts are the same as those of the first embodiment, so that the description thereof will be omitted, and only the differences will be described below.

The load on the CPU 2 is increased by providing the CPU 2 with the functions of the voice collating section 22 constituting the determining means and the failure notifying section 21 constituting the determining means, but the voice board 3 is provided with a general parser. The sound board normally used for the sonal computer can be used, and the fault monitoring device for the recording medium drive can be configured at a low cost.

Hereinafter, the operation of the second embodiment will be described. The processing flow is the same as the flowchart shown in FIG. First, the operation sound of the hard disk drive 1 as the recording medium drive is acquired by the microphone 4 as the operation sound acquisition means. The sound input unit 33 of the sound board 3 as an input means converts the operation sound from the microphone 4 from analog to digital and transfers the analog sound to the CPU 2.

At this time, the CPU 2 functions as a voice collating unit, and converts the operation sound data sent from the voice input unit 33 into the normal operation sound data registered in the storage means in the voice collating unit 22 in advance. Then, it is determined whether the hard disk drive 1 is operating normally or abnormally.
The CPU 2 displays the result of the determination on the failure display unit 34 or the display device 5 as a notification unit. If the result of the determination is "abnormal operation", data storage or operation stop is controlled for the hard disk drive 1.

The normal sound shown in FIG. 3 is registered in the voice collating unit 32 shown in FIGS. 2 and 4 by using an unspecified collating technique using dictionary data created by a large amount of data. The processing (step A1) can be omitted. However, it is desirable to perform step A1 from the viewpoint of matching accuracy.

In the voice collating unit 32 shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the collation accuracy can be improved by collating the abnormal operation data in addition to the normal operation sound data. Further, the normal operation data and the abnormal operation data are registered at each operation state of the hard disk drive 1, for example, at the time of starting, at the time of operation, at the time of standby, and at the time of return after the standby, and the normal operation and the abnormal operation are determined. Thus, the failure detection can be performed early.

At this time, when the normal operation data or the abnormal operation data is registered at the time of starting, the ROM as the second storage means programmed to acquire the sound of the hard disk drive 1 after the power is turned on is stored in the voice key. C3
It can be realized by configuring to prepare for. In each of the above embodiments, the example of the hard disk drive has been described as the recording medium drive.
D-ROM drive, CD-R (Compact Disc Recorda
ble) drive, CD-RW (Compact Disc ReWritabl)
e) Drive, magneto-optical disk drive, DVD (Digit
al Versatile Disc) -ROM drive, DVD-RA
The present invention can be applied to various types of recording medium driving devices in which a recording medium is driven by a driving mechanism, such as an M (Random Access Memory) drive.

As described above, the fault monitoring device of the recording medium driving device according to the present embodiment writes or writes a signal to the recording medium while rotating the hard disk as the recording medium by the rotation driving means such as a motor. A hard disk drive 1 for reading signals recorded on the recording medium,
The microphone 4 for acquiring the operation sound of the hard disk drive 1 and the sound quality of the operation sound acquired by the microphone 4 are compared with the sound quality data registered in advance in the first storage means and the second storage means, thereby obtaining a large amount of data. A voice collating unit 32 for determining whether or not the operation of the hard disk drive 1 is normal, using an unspecified collation technique using dictionary data created by the data or various speech recognition techniques; The display device 5 or the failure display unit 34 for notifying the determination result is provided.

Further, the fault monitoring device of the recording medium driving device according to the present embodiment is configured to write a signal to the recording medium or rotate the recording medium while rotating a hard disk which is a recording medium by a rotation driving means such as a motor. Hard disk drive 1 for reading a signal recorded in the hard disk drive 1, first storage means for registering a normal operation sound generated when the hard disk drive 1 is operating normally, and obtaining an operation sound of the hard disk drive 1 The microphone 4, the sound quality of the normal operation sound registered in the storage means, and the microphone 4
The voice verification unit 3 determines whether or not the operation of the hard disk drive 1 is normal by comparing the sound quality of the operation sound obtained in the step 3.
2 and a display device 5 for notifying the result of determination by the voice collating unit 32 and a failure display unit 34.

Further, the fault monitoring device of the recording medium driving device according to the present embodiment is capable of writing a signal to the recording medium or rotating the hard disk as a recording medium by rotating drive means such as a motor. And a computer device such as a personal computer including a display device 5 and a CPU 2 for reading signals recorded in the hard disk drive 1 and a normal operation sound generated when the hard disk drive 1 is operating normally. A first storage unit for registering, a microphone 4 for acquiring an operation sound of the hard disk drive 1, an audio input unit 33 for converting the operation sound acquired by the microphone 4 from analog to digital and outputting the same, and a register for the storage unit. The sound quality of the normal operation sound is compared with the sound quality of the operation sound input from the voice input unit 33, and the hard disk A voice collating unit 32 for determining whether or not the operation of the drive 1 is normal. The voice collating unit 32 is realized by the CPU 2 of the computer device, and displays the determination result of the voice collating unit 32 on the display device 5. It is characterized by.

Furthermore, the method of monitoring a failure of a recording medium drive according to the present embodiment is characterized in that a signal is written to or recorded on the recording medium while rotating a hard disk which is a recording medium by a rotation driving means such as a motor. A step of registering a normal operation sound generated when the hard disk drive 1 for reading a signal recorded on the medium is operating normally in the first storage means, and an operation sound of the hard disk drive 1 acquired by the microphone 4 Steps to
Comparing the sound quality of the normal operation sound registered in the storage unit with the sound quality of the operation sound acquired by the microphone 4 to determine whether the operation of the hard disk drive 1 is normal; And a step of displaying a notification on the failure display unit 34.

The recording medium on which the failure monitoring program of the recording medium driving apparatus according to the present embodiment is recorded can be used to write a signal to the recording medium while rotating a hard disk, which is a recording medium, by a rotation driving means such as a motor. Registering a normal operation sound generated when the hard disk drive 1 for reading or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium is operating normally in the first storage means; The processing for acquiring the operation sound and the sound suturing unit 32 compare the sound quality of the normal operation sound registered in the storage unit with the sound quality of the operation sound acquired by the microphone 4, and determine whether the operation of the hard disk drive 1 is normal. And a display device 5 for displaying the determination result.
And a failure monitoring program of the recording medium driving device for performing a process of notifying by the failure display unit 34.

Therefore, according to the above embodiments,
It is possible to monitor abnormalities of the recording medium drive without being affected by ambient sounds. Further, when an abnormality occurs in the recording medium driving device, it is possible to prevent the failure state from being deteriorated. Further, since a hard disk drive often emits an abnormal sound before catastrophic physical damage occurs, the abnormal operation sound is detected and a hard disk is detected.
Before a fatal physical damage of the hard disk occurs, it is possible to display a fault and save data at an early stage.

Furthermore, since the hard disk drive can be monitored only by the sound emitted from the hard disk drive without operating the hard disk drive in a special mode for fault monitoring, the load on the fault monitoring device is reduced. Further, according to the second embodiment, the CPU 2 is provided with a function as a determination means, so that a voice board which is provided as a standard in the computer device can be used, and the recording medium drive It becomes possible to configure the fault monitoring device of the device at low cost.

[0045]

According to the present invention, it is possible to monitor the abnormality of the recording medium drive without being affected by ambient noise. Further, even when an abnormal state occurs in the recording medium driving device, it is possible to prevent occurrence of a situation in which data is destroyed. Further, when an abnormality occurs in the recording medium driving device, it is possible to prevent the failure state from deteriorating. Further, it becomes possible to monitor the failure of the recording medium driving device with an inexpensive configuration.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a fault monitoring device for a recording medium driving device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of a failure monitoring device of the recording medium driving device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of the fault monitoring device of the recording medium driving device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a detailed block diagram of a fault monitoring device for a recording medium driving device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Hard disk drive as a recording medium drive device 2 ... CPU 3 ... Sound board 4 ... Microphone as operation sound acquisition means 5 ... Display device as notification means 6 ... CD- ROM drive 7 CD-ROM 31 as a recording medium 31 Failure notification unit 32 which constitutes a judgment unit 32 Audio collation unit 33 which constitutes a judgment unit 33 Audio input unit 34 which is an input unit ..Fault display units as notification means

Claims (17)

[Claims] 1. A recording medium driving device for writing a signal to the recording medium or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium while rotating the recording medium by rotation driving means, and an operation of the recording medium driving device Operating sound obtaining means for obtaining a sound; and determining whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal by comparing the sound quality of the operating sound obtained by the operating sound obtaining means with pre-registered sound quality data. And a notifying means for notifying a result of the judgment by the judging means. 2. A recording medium driving device for writing a signal to the recording medium or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium while rotating the recording medium by rotation driving means, and the recording medium driving device operates normally. Storage means for registering a normal operation sound generated when the operation is performed, operation sound acquisition means for acquiring an operation sound of the recording medium drive, sound quality of the normal operation sound registered in the storage means, and the operation A determination unit that determines whether the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal by comparing the sound quality of the operation sound acquired by the sound acquisition unit, and a notification unit that reports a determination result by the determination unit. A fault monitoring device for a recording medium driving device, comprising: 3. The operation of the recording medium drive device according to claim 2, wherein the determining unit compares the temporally changing normal operation sound with the temporally changing operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquiring unit. 3. The fault monitoring device for a recording medium drive according to claim 2, wherein it is determined whether or not the fault is detected. 4. The determination means checks the frequency spectrum of the normal operation sound with the frequency spectrum of the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition means to determine whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal. 3. The fault monitoring device for a recording medium drive according to claim 2, wherein the fault is determined. 5. The normal operation sound includes at least one of a start-up, an operation, a standby, and a return after the standby.
The fault monitoring device for a recording medium drive according to claim 2, wherein the fault monitoring device is acquired by the operation sound acquiring unit and registered in the storage unit. 6. An abnormal operation sound for judging the operation of the recording medium driving device as abnormal is stored in a storage unit in advance, and the judgment unit is configured to execute the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition unit and the normal operation sound. The failure monitoring of the recording medium driving device according to claim 2, wherein it is determined whether the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal by comparing a sound and the abnormal operation sound. apparatus. 7. The recording medium driving device according to claim 1, further comprising a storage unit that stores data being processed in the recording medium driving device when the determination unit determines that the data is abnormal. The fault monitoring device of the recording medium drive device according to claim 1. 8. The recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a stop unit that stops the operation of the recording medium driving device when the determination unit determines that there is an abnormality. Fault monitoring device for media drive. 9. A recording medium driving device for writing a signal to the recording medium or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium while rotating the recording medium by rotation driving means, a display device, and a CPU. A storage device for registering a normal operation sound generated when the recording medium drive device is operating normally; an operation sound acquisition device for obtaining an operation sound of the recording medium drive device; Input means for converting the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition means into analog / digital and outputting the result; and comparing the sound quality of the normal operation sound registered in the storage means with the sound quality of the operation sound inputted from the input means. Determining means for determining whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal. The determining means is realized by a CPU of a computer device, and determines a determination result of the determining means. Fault monitoring device for a recording medium driving device and displaying the serial display device. 10. The operation of the recording medium drive device according to claim 1, wherein the determining unit compares the temporally changing normal operation sound with the temporally changing operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquiring unit. It is determined whether or not it is.
The fault monitoring device of the recording medium drive device according to claim 1. 11. The determination means compares the frequency spectrum of the normal operation sound with the frequency spectrum of the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition means to determine whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal. The fault monitoring device for a recording medium drive according to claim 9, wherein the fault is determined. 12. When a recording medium driving device for writing a signal to the recording medium or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium while rotating the recording medium by the rotation driving means is operating normally. Registering the generated normal operation sound in a storage unit; obtaining the operation sound of the recording medium driving device by an operation sound obtaining unit; sound quality of the normal operation sound registered in the storage unit and the operation sound obtaining unit Comparing the sound quality of the operation sound obtained in step 1 with the recording medium driving device to determine whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal; and reporting the determination result. Fault monitoring method for drive unit. 13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of storing data being processed in said recording medium driving device when it is determined to be abnormal. 14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of stopping the operation of the recording medium driving device when it is determined that the recording medium driving device is abnormal. 15. When a recording medium driving apparatus for writing a signal to the recording medium or reading a signal recorded on the recording medium while rotating the recording medium by the rotation driving means is operating normally. A process of registering the generated normal operation sound in the storage unit; a process of obtaining the operation sound of the recording medium driving device by the operation sound acquisition unit; and a sound quality of the normal operation sound registered in the storage unit by the determination unit. In order to perform a process of comparing the sound quality of the operation sound acquired by the operation sound acquisition unit to determine whether or not the operation of the recording medium driving device is normal, and a process of notifying the determination result by the notification unit. A recording medium characterized by recording a failure monitoring program for the recording medium driving device according to the above. 16. The recording method according to claim 15, further comprising recording a program for causing the storage means to store the data being processed in the storage medium driving device by a storage unit when it is determined that the data is abnormal. Medium. 17. A program for causing an operation of the recording medium driving device to be stopped by a stop unit when the determination unit determines that the operation is abnormal. 16. The recording medium according to item 16.