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From: Jim Phillips (jim_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 10:45:14 CDT

Hi,

We've had parts of DCD files generated on the TeraGrid get overwritten
with segments of zeros before, but this is the first report on Platinum.
Assuming you have the same problem, but it hit boundary data rather than
coordinates, you might be able to use catdcd to read data after the
corruption. You should also tell NCSA, although Platinum is due to retire
soon (it's only up because Tungsten is down).

-Jim

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Karunesh Arora wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble reading some of the binary dcd files generated using
> NAMD on NCSA Platinum IA32 Linux cluster. On loading the trajectory in VMD
> following error message is obtained.
>
> read_dcdstep returned -6
>
> Though most of the dcd files generated after these corrupted files in
> between are fine. Is there way to retrive data from these corrupted
> dcd files?
>
> Thanks
> Karunesh
>