[daip] Tape question

[Eric Greisen]

Robert Ryans writes:
 > I have installed AIPS (31DEC00 release) on some of our Linux (RH 7.1)
 > systems, and am having some trouble with the tape drives. DATs can be
 > mounted/dismounted OK, and accessed on remote machines. But when we
try to

      Often MOUNT does really very little

 > read/write, we get errors. I have copied the error log from a write test
 > below. Is there something simple we're not doing here that might cause this
 > error?

       Yes


 > anya  > IMLOD1: IMPARS: NUMBER VALUE ERROR ON EQUINOX
 > anya  > IMLOD1: IMPARS: NUMBER VALUE ERROR ON EQUINOX

     This suggests that your FITS tapo is incorrect.  Send me the
FITS header if you want debug help on that.

 > anya  > FITTP1: ZTPOPN: UNABLE TO TRANSLATE LOGICAL NAME AMT01
 > anya  > FITTP1: TAPIO: ERROR   1 OPENING FILE

IMOLD uses INTAPE, FITTP uses OUTTAPE adverbs.  The former was
MOUNTed, the latter was not (the MOUNT creates the logical AMT0n).

Eric Greisen