[daip] Re: Remote Dat tape reading

[Eric Greisen]

Claudio E. Tateyama writes:

 > I have installed the AIPS on Linux (Red Hat 9).
 > In the Linux I can enter in a machine called YASY
 > (Solaris 9), where I can read a tape (4 mm Dat tape).
 > However, when AIPS is running, the AIPS itself
 > does not recognize YASY, thus I am not able
 > to read the data.
 > 
 > My question is; am I doing something wrong, or there is
 > no other way, other than putting physically a 4 mm tape
 > reader on my machine to read the data?
 > 
 > Claudio

For the Solaris machine to run TPMON, the remote tape daemon process,
you need to do an aips installation for Solaris.  Note that they can
share the same source code etc if both machines can mount the same
disk drive.  Thus, here we had Linux, Solaris and SGI versions all
hanging off a disk known as /home/AIPS.  There is some info about all
this on the AIPS Manager FAQ page found from the aips home page:

         http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips

You can of course dd the files from tape to disk and then read the
disk files with all AIPS "tape" reading tasks (FITLD, FILLM, etc).
Make sure that the dd uses a large enough blksize to avoid cutting
records short.

Eric Greisen