st 0: Block limits 1 -16777215 bytes -- what this error means?

sathyguy · 02-10-2007, 05:48 AM

Friends,

When i switched on our server monitor i saw the error..

Quote:

st 0: Block limits 1 -16777215 bytes

on the screen.
what this error specifies?

Server is RHEL AS 3.0.

Thanks
Sathyguy

stress_junkie · 02-10-2007, 08:27 AM

st0 is a SCSI tape device. It looks like some process has tried to write a single block that is larger than 16 megabytes onto the tape and that this was not successful. Tapes typically have a fixed size data block. Different tape formats have different lengths. Travan TR 5 tapes have a block length of 10,240 bytes. DLT tape drives typically use 32,768 bytes per block.