[daip] Re: Troubles reading DAT

[Data Analysts]

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>From jwinn at cfa.harvard.edu  Mon Jul 25 11:48:18 2005
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From: Josh Winn <jwinn at cfa.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: Troubles reading DAT
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Thanks so much, Meri, for the quick reply. The disks are far from full, so
it must be another problem. Any other ideas?

In any case, thanks for the access keys - if I can't get the DATs working
I will just download the data.

Cheers,

Josh

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Data Analysts wrote:

>
> Hi Josh,
>
> Those errors usually occur when we run out of room
> on the disk we are writing to.
>
> The access keys are:
>
> BW076 fQaEgatm
> BW079 FreAbhJV
>
> Best regards,
> Meri
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to read the data from projects BW076 and BW079 using FITLD.
> > The data are on the DAT distribution tapes that were sent to me by NRAO.
> > Most of the time I try it, FITLD crashes with a weird error message about
> > a parity error.  The latest time I tried it, for BW076, it crashed with
> > the error message
> >
> >
> > FITLD1 12:52:45 ZEXPND: EXPANSION FAILED ON FILE DA02:UVD00I001.1PM;
> > NREC = 149351
> > FITLD1 12:52:45 ZERROR: ON FILE DA02:UVD00I001.1PM;
> > FITLD1 12:52:45 ZERROR: IN ZEXPN2 ERRNO = 27 (File too large)
> > FITLD1 12:52:45 FILE EXPANSION FAILED - QUITTING
> >
> > The file in question is indeed larger than the average - the note
> > that was slipped into the DAT case says that the file is 374 Mb.
> > The next largest file that was successfully read was 348 Mb.
> >
> > Any ideas what is wrong?
> >
> > In the short term, it might be easier to download the data from
> > the on line archive.  Could I please have an access password for
> > projects BW076 and BW079?  I am the PI for both projects.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Josh
> >
>


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