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...http://www.google.com/patents/US20060179381?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20060179381 - Detection and recovery of dropped writes in storage devices
