[daip] Question about the availble volume in hard disk

[Eric Greisen]

Cheng-Yu Kuo wrote:
>          Dear Dr. Greisen:
> 
>        I had problem about AIPS a few weeks ago, and the words at the 
> end of this email is what I sent you before. You gave me some 
> suggestions, but I was not able to solve the problem. I just deleted 
> unnecessary files such that the used disk space is below ~16%.
> Now I think I should solve the problem:
> 
> The following is the message I have when I use "too much" disk space 
> (now ~20%).
> 
> coffy.> SPLIT1: Task SPLIT  (release of 31DEC07) begins
> coffy.> SPLIT1: You are using a non-standard program
> coffy.> SPLIT1: Doing subarray  1
> coffy.> SPLIT1: UVGET: Using flag table version   5 to edit data
> coffy.> SPLIT1: Create NGC6323     .SPLIT .1678 (UV)  on disk  2  cno   20
> coffy.> SPLIT1: Applying CL Table version    12
> coffy.> SPLIT1: ** WARNING - Subarray   1 contains VLBA data, but no CQ 
> data
> coffy.> SPLIT1: ** to enable VLBA decorrelation corrections
> coffy.> SPLIT1: ** Type EXPLAIN FITLD for further information
> coffy.> SPLIT1: ZCREA2: CREATE ERROR = 5
> coffy.> SPLIT1: ZERROR: ON FILE DA02:FQD00K001.01W;
> coffy.> SPLIT1: ZERROR: IN ZCREA2 ERRNO = 5 (Input/output error)
> coffy.> SPLIT1: TABINI: ERROR  4 CREATING FILE FQ NO   1
> coffy.> SPLIT1: FQINI: ERROR   4 FROM TABINI OPCODE = WRIT
> coffy.> SPLIT1: FQINI: ERROR INITIALIZING FREQUENCY TABLE FOR WRIT
> coffy.> SPLIT1: PROBLEM WITH SOURCE: NGC6323
> coffy.> SPLIT1: FAILED TO SELECT VALID DATA
> coffy.> SPLIT1: Destroyed UV image file: catno=     20 disk= 2
> coffy.> SPLIT1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
> coffy.> SPLIT1: coffy        31DEC07 TST: Cpu=      77.7  Real=     155
> 
> 
> This problem or error message is not specific to any particular AIPS 
> task, but happen when the used disk space exceed certain limit. If I 
> delete some files, then the problem will be gone. Do you have an idea 
> what the problem might be ? Thank you for your help!

My best guess is that your disk is defective.  In any case, as you have 
found, this is not an AIPS error but something about your external disk.

I had understood that Pat Murphy who is located near you and is knows 
about system matters was going to help you.  I cannot.

Eric Greisen