[daip] aips help

[Leonia Kogan]

Karyn,

This can mean that your actual tape driver does not correspond to the selected 
one by MOUNT or something wrong with the tape driver.

Exit AIPS and enter in it again. You'll see the list of the tape assignments.
For example in my case my mashine does not have a tape driver and so I have 
to use the tape driver of other mashine (remote). 

in my case it looks like:

Tape assignments: 
   Tape 1 is REMOTE
   Tape 2 is REMOTE

It is possible that your mashine does not have a tape driver (like me).
In this case you have to use REMHOST to name the remote mashine and relevant 
REMTAPE (in my case it is 1 for exabyte tape and 2 for dat tape (your tape).

So depending on the AIPS tape assignments you need playing by intape and 
remtape.

If the tape drive is broken or switched off, then it is another story.

You can read more about MOUNT, typing: help mount in AIPS.

Leonia
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Greetings from Nantucket!  

We are students attempting to use aips to reduce data taken at the VLBA, 
and we're having some problems getting the program to read our tape:  

>INTAPE 1
>DENSITY 6250
>MOUNT
AIPS 1: ZMOUN2: Couldn't open tape device /dev/rmt8
AIPS 1: zerror; IN ZMOUN2 ERRNO = 13 (Permission denied)
AIPS 1: TAPE PROBLEM
>

We don't understand what the problem is, or where to go from here. We'd  
greatly appreciate any help.

Sincerely,
Shay & Karyn


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