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James, I notice you have (or had?) similar problems as we have. Maybe there is somebody who can help us out. I have a PAE for a week now and the first few days it worked fine. We put the card and disk in another computer, even connected it to a Lantastic network and it still worked fine. Suddenly we got bad frames while importing or duplicating. It looks like there are two frames mixed in one picture and the sync seems lost. In a few days the problem got worse and we now have 10 faulty frames in 80 total ! We reinstalled the software (1.25B Pal version), upgraded to 1,29B Pal, optimized the disk etc. but nothing works. If we play old animations recorded before the problems started they still look oke. If we duplicate the old ones: same problem again, so it seems all writing goes wrong. Another strange thing is that repeatedly while importing TGA's the PAR stops and complains about "file …… could not be converted; aborting import". After this happens the PAR software stops and complains about a fatal error "communication time out". (I thought this was solved after the release of 1.27). When we check with PARCHECK it mostly tests oke, but sometimes it complains about missing ACK's and reports errors while testing PIO mode. Last strange phenomenon is that sometimes even when booting we get an error. We checked temperature of the drive, but after some hours off it still gives the same problems. Any idea somebody ? We have to shoot a production commercial in two days so we are desperate !