PAR backup!
I don't know about other people but the practice here is to keep the PAR drive
fairly clean. I also dump ani files to the dos drive for temporary storage
during a project. I might have as many as 3 G of files for a project and have
to store elsewhere. Fortunately most of my files are under 500 frames. When I
tested the problem here I discovered it occured at frame count >896. It had
nothing to do with the tape drive. It has to do with the import/export of the
PAR.