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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2006
Brian Gerard Goodman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Paul Merrill Greco, Tucson, AZ (US);
Glen Alan Jacquette, Tucson, AZ (US);
Leonard George Jesionowski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Brian Gerard Goodman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Paul Merrill Greco, Tucson, AZ (US);
Glen Alan Jacquette, Tucson, AZ (US);
Leonard George Jesionowski, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for configuring a storage drive to communicate with encryption and key managers. A storage drive receives a request to access a coupled removable storage media for drive operations. The storage drive obtains encryption status for the coupled removable storage media from an encryption manager. The storage drive determines from the obtained encryption status whether to encrypt the coupled removable storage media to access. The storage drive obtains at least one key from a key manager in response to determining to encrypt with respect to the coupled removable storage media. The storage drive performs data operations using the at least one key to encrypt data.