>-----Original Message-----
>From: Legato NetWorker discussion
[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Russell
>Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 6:50 AM
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [Networker] Failed to read 65536 byte block with 32768
byte read
>
>Oscar Olsson wrote:
>> On 2006-07-03 08:14, Bernd Gotschy revealed:
>>
>> BG> we see this error in /var/log/messages of our Linux SLES 8,
Kernel 
>> BG> 2.4.21. It is a Networker
>> BG> 7.2.1 backup server with AIT 2 tapes. Backups and recoveries
work.
>> BG> Any idea what this error means? Is this a critical error?
>>
>> We see the following with SLES9 and SAIt-1 tapes. Hasn't got us into 
>> any problem so far. Guess its more or less cosmetic:
>>
>> st2: Failed to read 65536 byte block with 32768 byte transfer.
>>   
>
>Also seen on Red Hat 7.3 through RHEL 4. On Linux this is normal when
the end of a tape is encountered.
>
>--
>Scott Russell <lnxgeek AT us.ibm DOT com>
>IBM Linux Technology Center, System Admin
>
Not necessarily an end of tape message, it happens every time Networker
runs.  This has been discussed before on this list.  So far it is
meaningless and there is nothing that can be done to stop it unless
someone knows more up-to-date info.


Patti Clark
Unix System Administrator - RHCT
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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