Version 6.02 (Released 29 July 2005)

• Some VLBA control file parameters are not used when recording to non-tape media such as Mark5. The parameters autoallocate, autoreverse, barrel, and track will no longer be written in such circumstances. 1 Apr 2005 RCW.

• Remove option to record on tape at VLBA_LA and VLBA_KP. The drives have been removed from the stations as part of the conversion to Mark5. This revealed some of the problems noted below. April 2005 RCW.

• SCHED was claiming, in the summary file, that some setup files were identical when they were not. The problem was a typo in the channel index when comparing channel dependent data such as firstlo. The typo has been fixed. The machine readable schedules produced by SCHED to be sent to the antennas were not affected. Fixed 3 Apr 2005 RCW.

• For Mark5 observations, SCHED was complaining when there were too few tracks even if the setup was only for non-recording scans such as those meant for reference pointing. This test is now bypassed for non-recording situations. 4 Apr. 2005 RCW.

• The Mark5 byte count was being accumulated even on non-recording scans, such as pointing scans. Corrected 4 Apr 2005 RCW.

• Change the reaction to the use of less than 8 tracks with Mark5 from an error to a warning on Walter Brisken's advice. The data will be recorded but, on the VLBA, extra dummy data will also be recorded wasting disk space. 13 Apr 2005 RCW.

• Fix the media specification in crd files for non-recording scans. 14 Apr 2005 RCW

• Give information in the summary file about number of formatter reconfigures and time lost to correlator resyncs. Warn users when the latter is over 10 percent of the total scan time. We have seen some projects lately where unfortunate frequency choices in band switching projects led to many reconfigures and massive data loss. In the process, time lost to resyncs after tape stops is also calculated and a warning is issued if it is excessive. 19 Apr 2005 RCW.

• Add DISK parameter to the .oms file. It gives the the number of Gbytes on the disk drive, if that has been calculated. 12 May 2005 RCW.

• Remove joint tape and disk options even for VLBA. 27 June 2005 RCW

• Changed TPMODE to TAPEMODE in RECONFIG and SAMESET. This is a bug fix that might improve predictions of time lost to formatter reconfigures. 27 June 2005. RCW.

• Force TAPEMODE to 1 for disk so that constant track assignments are kept. Make some cosmetic modifications to the summary file related to the conversion to Mark5. 29 June 2005. RCW