CompuServe Messages

RE: reformatting par drive and locating files on slower portion of drive etc… i have made the following observations in the process of trying to diagnose/fix the problem 1 Reformat drive and copy just one ani file to it. the problem persists and occurs at the same frame 2 All backup, restores, etc. have been done exclusively with the par software. i have never used dos to affect any change to the par drive. 3 I have tried to restore files using the non-beta version of the software. 4 not all files have been corrupted within the first 1000 frames (although most have). one ani restored over 5000 frames before developing a problem 5 i noticed that in each case if i tried to restore the same ani several times the file was defective on the same frame each time. this would seem to indicate that the corruption is occurring when the file is saved, not restored. btw i have always rendered to my system harddrive, copied to the par and then backed up the original frames to dat tape so i haven't lost all of my rendering time. i was always a little leary of the par and thought this was a logical precaution. jerry