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US 12,314,612 B2Granted
Restricted transport storage cartridges
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsChristopher Anthony Grant Hillier, Curtis C. Ballard
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Abstract
In some examples, a computer receives a command to transport a storage cartridge in a storage system from a physical storage slot to a storage drive, and determines whether the storage cartridge is associated with a restricted transport indication set by a configuration operation in the storage system. In response to determining that the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication, the computer checks for an indication of receipt of an access secret information, and denies processing of the command to transport the storage cartridge if the indication of receipt of the access secret information is not present.
Claims19
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that upon execution cause a computer to:
- as part of a configuration operation, receive a configuration command comprising an information element set to a value indicating that a storage cartridge in a storage system has a restricted transport mode, wherein the configuration command is to configure the storage cartridge and the information element set to the value in the configuration command specifies that the storage cartridge is a restricted transport storage cartridge whose transport within the storage system in response to a command from outside the storage system is subject to restricted transport handling, and wherein the configuration command is a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) configuration command or a Non-Volatile Memory Express configuration command;
- in response to the configuration command comprising the information element set to the value specifying that the storage cartridge is the restricted transport storage cartridge, store, in a memory, a restricted transport indication in association with the storage cartridge;
- receive a second command to transport the storage cartridge from a physical storage slot to a storage drive;
- determine whether the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication in the memory set by the configuration operation in response to the configuration command;
- and
- in response to determining that the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication, check for an indication of receipt of an access secret information and deny processing of the second command to transport the storage cartridge responsive to determining that the indication of receipt of the access secret information is not present.
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A storage library comprising:
- a physical storage slot;
- a storage drive;
- a transport device to transport storage cartridges between different locations in the storage library;
- a processor;
- and
- a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable on the processor to:
- receive, in a configuration operation, a configuration command at the storage library from a system separate from the storage library, the configuration command comprising an information element set to a value specifying that a storage cartridge in the storage library is a restricted transport storage cartridge whose transport within the storage library in response to a command from outside the storage library is subject to restricted transport handling, wherein the configuration command is to configure the storage cartridge and is a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) configuration command or a Non-Volatile Memory Express configuration command;
- in response to the configuration command comprising the information element set to the value specifying that the storage cartridge is the restricted transport storage cartridge, store, in a memory, a restricted transport indication in association with the storage cartridge;
- receive a second command to transport the storage cartridge from the physical storage slot to the storage drive;
- determine whether the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication in the memory set by the configuration operation in response to the configuration command;
- and
- in response to determining that the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication, check for an indication of receipt of an access secret information and deny processing of the second command to transport the storage cartridge responsive to determining that the indication of receipt of the access secret information is not present.
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A method of a storage system comprising a storage drive, the method comprising:
- as part of a configuration operation, receiving, at the storage system from a system separate from the storage system, a configuration command comprising an information element set to a value specifying that a storage cartridge in the storage system is a restricted transport storage cartridge whose transport within the storage system in response to a command from outside the storage system is subject to restricted transport handling, wherein the configuration command is to configure the storage cartridge and does not cause transport of the storage cartridge and does not cause access of data in the storage cartridge, and wherein the configuration command comprising the information element set to the value is a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) configuration command or a Non-Volatile Memory Express configuration command;
- in response to the configuration command comprising the information element set to the value specifying that the storage cartridge is the restricted transport storage cartridge, storing, in a memory, a restricted transport indication in association with the storage cartridge;
- receiving, from a requester, a second command to transport the storage cartridge in the storage system from a physical storage slot to the storage drive;
- determining whether the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication set in the memory by the configuration operation in response to the configuration command;
- in response to determining that the storage cartridge is associated with the restricted transport indication, checking for an indication of receipt of an access secret information from the requester and denying processing of the second command to transport the storage cartridge responsive to determining the indication of receipt of the access secret information from the requester is not present;
- receiving a third command to transport a further storage cartridge from another physical storage slot to the storage drive;
- and
- in response to determining that the further storage cartridge is not associated with a restricted transport indication, allowing processing of the third command to transport the further storage cartridge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.