[daip] Added new AIPS disks, error message from ZDCHIN about NETSP entry

[Susan Neff]

Hi Eric,

I hope things are going well for you, in between the 
changes in management out there.

[Do I need (would it be of any help to you) to submit 
this to the NRAO helpdesk?]


We (David Friedlander, system administrator here, and 
I) added two new big disks to my Mac Pro desktop 
machine.  I run AIPS standalone on it, as I do for my 
laptop.  We modified the DADEVS file and the NETSP 
file in the aips root area to add the new disks.  AIPS 
sees the disks and (as far as I can tell so far), 
works fine with them.

However, when we start AIPS, we] get error messages 
saying:
    ZDCHIN: NO NETSP ENTRY FOR DA01  (DA02, DA03...)

I don't remember getting these error messages before, 
but when I try starting AIPS on my laptop (for 
comparison), I get the same error messages on that 
system.  I'm thinking that I may have just "forgotten 
to see" the messages before (but I notice them now, 
when checking out the new disks).


I see that the AIPS Manager FAQs say that the disks 
need to have the identical name in NETSP as they have 
in DADEVS.LIST.  They do not have (and have not had 
for quite a while) the same names on either of my 
machine, although they do (and have for quite a while) 
point to the same data areas, even though the names 
(in NETSP and in DADEVS.LIST) of the files are 
different.  [I believe the different names have to do 
with historic, no longer applicable, systems for 
naming disks here.]

Example:
     In DADEVS.LIST, AIPS disk 1: is  
/Volumes/Apps_and_Docs/sgneff/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1
     In NETSP, AIPS disk 1 is:       
/Users/neff/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1
     In both cases,  LOCALHOST_1 is a link to the 
(same) real data area.


So, a few questions:

1) Is the mismatch between the names likely to be 
causing the error message, or is it likely to be 
somewhere else?


2) Do I need to worry about these error messages?   If 
I'm using the desktop machine stand-alone, as I use my 
laptop, does this matter?  Are there tasks or verbs 
that will not work if I'm getting those error messages?


Thanks in advance for any help or insight you can provide,
-s-