Patent ID: 8442235

Claim:
One or more computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions for processing band-centric input/output control communications, the computer-executable instructions directed to steps comprising: creating a security device object representing self-encrypting features of a hardware encrypting storage device; detecting band-centric input/output control communications directed to an existing storage device object associated with the hardware encrypting storage device, the detected band-centric input/output control communications lacking a cryptographic key required to perform actions requested by the detected band-centric input/output control communications; redirecting the detected band-centric input/output control communications to a first set of computer-executable instructions differing from the existing storage device object to which the detected band-centric input/output control communications were originally directed; and providing command communications to the existing storage device object, the command communications instructing the hardware encrypting storage device to perform the actions requested by the detected band-centric input/output control communications, the provided command communications having been generated by the first set of computer-executable instructions in response to the redirecting.