[daip] Strange Error

[Laura Chomiuk]

Hello,
	I acutally figured it out; I had BADDISK set to 1. Thanks!
			Laura



On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Laura Chomiuk wrote:
> > Hello,		I recently upgraded to 31Dec08 version of AIPS, and
> > have been getting an error that looks like this a LOT:
> > 
> > SCREAT: FAILED TO CREATE REQUESTED SCRATCH FILE
> > CALCOP: ERROR 5 CREATING SCRATCH FILE
> > 
> > (it might not always say CALCOP, i'm not sure) 
> > it pops up most often when I am trying to use UVPLT, and sometimes if, after
> > I get this error, I load up my data in TVFLG and push a few buttons, when I
> > try UVPLT again, it will work and not give me this error. But oftentimes
> > this does not work, and I just can't plot my data.
> > 
> > Also, I just tried to run BLCAL and got the above error in that case too! I
> > have plenty of disk space available, and the uv file is not being read or
> > written to by anything. So I am at a loss.
> > 
> > Do you have any insight into what might be causing this? It's making it very
> > difficult to use aips at all.
> 
> the error message above is a summary error message which - if I read the code
> correctly - must always be preceded by a more informative message.
> What more does it say?
> 
> Eric Greisen
>