[daip] AIPS data disks limit

[Eric Greisen]

On 03/06/2017 06:53 AM, Marc Verheijen wrote:
> Dear Eric,
>
> the new Apertif Phased-Array Feed on the Westerbork telescope is close
> to starting its early-science projects.  The advantage of Apertif is
> that it can simultaneously observe up to 42 primary beams on the sky,
> greatly enhancing its field-of-view.
>
> In anticipation of the Medium-Deep Survey, I'm trying to set up a
> re-processing pipeline using AIPS and ParselTongue on my 8-node,
> 320-core compute cluster.  For an effective and 'clean' data management,
> I would like to assign a different AIPS data disk for each of the 42
> so-called compound beams on the sky.  It seems, however, that AIPS
> 'only' supports 35 data areas.
>
> Would it be possible to increase the number of data areas to more than
> 35? Alternatively, could you think of a transparant work-around for this
> problem?
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help or suggestion you can provide.
>
As you may imagine, the limit of 35 is carried very many places.  I have 
resolved the issue of assigning the disks but very many places now fail 
to work properly.  This may take some seriopus time...

Eric