Not to be melodramatic or anything.
But this error:
SCREAT: FAILED TO CREATE REQUESTED SCRATCH FILE
CALCOP: ERROR 5 CREATING SCRATCH FILE
has started popping up all over the place ever since i updated to 31Dec08 version of aips. The relevant task always crashes after giving me this error.
It often pops up when I'm just doing an innocent UVPLT-- and sometimes if I load my data up in TVFLG and wiggle my mouse around and push a few buttons, when i quit out and try UVPLT, the error will be gone. But sometimes it won't.
And i was just trying to run BLCAL and got the error for that script too! I've checked to make sure my uv data is not being read or written. I don't understand what it means. Any thoughts?
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From what I can see, it's having trouble writing a scratch file. You might want to try setting BADDISK and see if that helps.
Yup, I set BADDISK = 0 and the error stopped coming up! Somehow or other it was set to BADDISK = 1, which is the disk I was working on.
Yeah, I can see how that would screw things up.
Off topic -
Do you folks do any work with high frequency (K and Q band) data? Do you use CASA at all? I've been trying to do both.
Adam
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