[daip] Re: Strange AIPS error....

[Eric Greisen]

Nissim Kanekar writes:
 > 
 > Hi Eric,
 > 
 > I've been getting a rather strange error (attached below) from various 
 > AIPS tasks on a data set. It's particularly weird as the error seems 
 > to come and go. This particular version came while running POSSM on a CVEL 
 > file, but a similar error was obtained while running IMAGR earlier on 
 > other different CVEL, UVSUB and UVLIN files from the same AIPS area. 
 > IMAGR worked fine on the same CVEL file that gave the POSSM error below. 
 > Was wondering if you might know what's going on...
 > 
 > Thanks !
 > Nissim
 > 
 > --------------------------------------------------- 
 > 
 > 
 > scorpi> POSSM1: Task POSSM  (release of 31DEC05) begins
 > scorpi> POSSM1: ZMIO: OPER=READ LUN=25 BLKNO=566353 8-BIT-BYTES=196992
 > scorpi> POSSM1: ZERROR: IN ZMI2 ERRNO = 5 (Input/output error)
 > scorpi> POSSM1: ZWAIT: ZWAI2 RETURNS ERROR 3 FOR LUN = 25 BUFFER = 2
 > scorpi> POSSM1: ZERROR: IN ZWAI2  ERRNO = 5 (Input/output error)
 > scorpi> POSSM1: DATGET: ERROR  3 READING UV DATA
 > scorpi> POSSM1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
 > scorpi> POSSM1: scorpion     31DEC05 TST: Cpu=       1.0  Real=      66
 > 

I would guess that your disk is about to crash - see helpdesk
immediately.

Eric Greisen