[daip] possible 31DEC04 bug related to reading TAPE

[Eric Greisen]

Neeraj Gupta writes:

 >      I tried using AIPS' frozen version 31DEC04 on the Linux PC with OS 
 > Fedora-Core 3.  I noticed following two things:
 > 
 > 1) In the script install.pl that comes with 31DEC04, $myvers = "31DEC05". 
 > Please change this to "31DEC04"

    Yes I forgot and putbck the TST version in NEW - fixed.now.

 > 
 > 2) I also tried a small data analysis exercise.  Everything worked fine 
 > except for reading a tape with the FITLD.  The data was written (and then 
 > read also as a check) onto the tape using 31DEC03.  The 31DEC04 FITLD, 
 > REWIND however gives the error:
 > 
 > >mount
 > AIPS 1: Mounted on ANSI SCSI 2 tape on host genpro
 > >rewind
 > AIPS 1: ZTPOPR: REMOTE TAPE SYSTEM RETURNS ERROR CODE     99
 > AIPS 1: ZTPOPN: REMOTE OPEN ERROR  99 TO genpro
 > AIPS 1: TAPIO: ERROR  99 OPENING FILE
 > AIPS 1: INVALID TAPE

 >       I checked same tape, tape-drive with 31DEC03 aips.  It works fine. 
 > Also, I tried 31DEC03 and 31DEC04 compiled on RedHat9.  Again 31DEC03 
 > works fine and 31DEC04 gives the above problem.
 > 

You could try reading the AIPSLetter.  It states there that the
31DEC04 and previous versions are incompatible with respect to remote
tape.  See

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

where the 30 June 2004 and 31 December 2004 AIPSLetters may be found.

Eric Greisen