[daip] Filling VLA data from disk

[Eric Greisen]

Eric Perlman writes:

 > Cookbook, i.e., just put
 > the file name into INFILE within FILLM.
 > 
 > Here are the errors I get:
 > 
 > daneel> FILLM1: Task FILLM  (release of 31DEC01) begins
 > daneel> FILLM1: will apply Van Vleck correction on continuum data
 > daneel> FILLM1: Shadow flag limit =  7.000E+00 meters.
 > daneel> FILLM1: ZTPOPN: UNABLE TO TRANSLATE LOGICAL NAME AMT01
 > daneel> FILLM1: TAPIO: ERROR   1 OPENING FILE
 > daneel> FILLM1: Error      8 opening VLA archive data tape.
 > daneel> FILLM1: FLMUV: FLMDAT error  8
 > daneel> FILLM1: Read         0 visibilities from  0 files
 > daneel> FILLM1: Appears to have ended successfully
 > daneel> FILLM1: daneel       31DEC01 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       0
 > 
 > One important piece of info:  we are currently running 31DEC01 here, but 
 > will probably update
 > to 31DEC03 in the next few weeks.

    31DEC01 uses INFILE for a VLA gains file and does not offer disk
reading for data.  You must use 31DEC02 with patches or 31DEC03.

 > 
 > Do you know what's going on?  Is this something that 31DEC01 cannot do?  
 > Or is it related to how
 > I put the data onto disk?  (I used dd and ibs=2880, as if it was a FITS 
 > file; dd failed utterly without
 > the FITS-standard block size).

That block size is wrong too.  It is 26624 for VLA data in this raw
format.

Eric Greisen