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I spent all last night( and I do mean alllll night ) waiting for my 
EIII to verify my Syquest Syjet 1.5 gig removable hard drive, it seem 
ed to mount and it seemed to format, and then it went into verify 
mode and I anticipated a long wait for verification ( honestly i 
expected about 5 hours ) well it ran all night about 8 hours, and it 
never finished. I am concerned because I do think that the current 
hard drive in the EIII is bound to die one day in the near future. I 
also tried another external Power Pro 1 gig drive that I have but I 
keep getting Hardware error messages , I have everything terminated. 
What am I doing wrong ?
                            Thanks, Larry