Linux-Hardware Digest #703, Volume #10 Thu, 8 Jul 99 11:13:35 EDT
Contents:
2 x 3c905 @ same I/O ??? (Guy)
Re: format >2GB hard ("Dave Burley")
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet networking problem (Mike Carden)
Re: 3c905C-TX installation failure (Tobias Schorr)
Re: Help! My awe32 suddenly stopped working (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Diamond Supra Express 56i Modem (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Filesystem on DAT Tape Recorder? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Celeron or PII? ("Robert L. McCormick")
Re: Install on Jaz disk (Chris Mahmood)
Re: NIC IRQ Problem (Dave Senciall)
Re: Internal Modem (Skipper)
Re: Bad/semi-usable sectors? (Workarounds for hard disk anomaly?) ("Gene Heskett")
Making MPEG movies from AVI? ("Jeff Volckaert")
Re: Lexmark 1000C help needed! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Reading Amiga Formatted Zips Under Linux (Re: Reading Mac Zip Disks) (Teddy Wang)
WISECOM INTERNAL PCI MODEM (Sven)
400GB disk, tape hardware required for RH 6.0 Intel (Richard Prout)
Help: Xerox DocuPrint P8 (Craig Brown)
Re: SCSI v. IDE boot conflict (Linux-only system) (Gerald Willmann)
diamond stealth III S540 (Greg Dickson)
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From: Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: 2 x 3c905 @ same I/O ???
Date: 8 Jul 1999 11:30:53 GMT
I have two 3c905 cards in a router, which I cannot get working together.
Further investigation reveals that the 2 cards are reported as having the
same IO, but different IRQ.
According to the DOS config util, they are configured at different IO and
IRQ, but when after loading 3c59x.o they are reported as above.
Linux does not find them on boot, so 3c59x.o is loaded manually. IP
addresses can be bound to both adapters, but only one will work at any
given time. Have enabled/disabled PnP BIOS, lilo.conf has:
append = "ether=11,fc80,eth0 ether=9,fc00,eth1"
No idea what to do!! Help!
Thanks,
Guy
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From: "Dave Burley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: format >2GB hard
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 21:32:31 +1000
Make sure that you set LBA mode on for the drive, in the cmos setup...
then re-run fdisk, it should prompt for large disk, say yes & away you go,
as someone else stated, FAT32 has fixed cluster size for disks up to 8Gb,
but the ID byte in the partition table is different for FAT32 LBA & FAT32
CHS
0x0B00 = Windows 95 FAT-32
0x0C00 = Windows 95 FAT-32 (LBA)
FDISK checks the bios(from cmos setup) table for Large Block Access, if it
didn't ask I would presume it is turned off, Worth a try anyway, by the way
as FATS are dynamic under FAT32, the size is dependant on disk size, it
would be easier to delete the partition of 2GB you created!
Best regards Dave B...
Kamran Mohseni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hey guys;
>
> I have a HP pentium II 233MHz machine with 6GB hard disk. I Want to have
> both Windows and Linux on my machine. So I partitioned the system with
> 2.6GB (created as FAT32) for windows and 3.6GB for Linux. I've installed
> linux RH6.0 without any problem. The problem is that I can only format
> 2GB of my windows partition (I used the boot disk from Windows98 to
> format c). It doesnot let me to format more than 2GB. I used the
> command
>
> format c: /s
>
> Note that the size of the partitions are correct on fdisk. How can I
> format all of c:?
>
> send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kamran.
>
>
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From: Mike Carden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Ethernet networking problem
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 12:15:12 +0100
Hey, thanks for responding ..
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, crayfish
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Mike Carden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>You might have to give us your configuration instead of just writing
>that everything is ok :) In fact, if something is not working, there
>has to be a problem, and I do not think this is a interrupt prob (as
>somebody else wrote).
>
Fair comment, but what's wrong? Where should I be looking?
What config files should I post to help?
>1. Can you see the replys on your linux box?
Nothing at all.
>
>2. How did you connect your linux box?
Didn't touch a thing apart from reboot into Linux rather than win98
> Do you get any other traffic to
>your linux box (can you telnet to it)? If not, there might be a prob
>with your wiring.
No traffic on the cable gets recognised at all.
Can not be a cable problem as the other os works fine.
>
>greetings, Crayfish
Any ideas?
>
>
>
>> I've a big problem which none of the documentation has helped with!
>
>> Configuration:-
>
>> Pentium II laptop with Xircom Realport 10/100+Modem 56
>> Redhat 6.0 new install.
>
>> Problem.
>
>> The hardware works fine with win95/98/nt including the xircom
>
>> I get a real weird problem with linux 6.0.
>
>> The linux machine puts packets onto the network with no problem.
>> I can see them with a sniffer.
>> They are mainly arp packets of course until I manually add an entry via
>> arp -s for another machine.
>> When I do this and then a ping, I see the icmp traffic in both
>> directions with the sniffer. The linux box sees no replys ( the led on
>> the xircom flickers though as one would expect ).
>
>> ifconfig -a reports no packets RX TX or collisions.
>
>> network addresses, netmasks etc are all correct and the other machine
>> populates it's MAC arp table with the linux boxes ether address
>> correctly.
>
>> Anybody got any ideas?
>
>> Thanks.
>
>
>
>> --
>> Mike Carden
--
Mike Carden
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Schorr)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: 3c905C-TX installation failure
Date: 8 Jul 1999 11:43:47 GMT
In article <qXtd3.9964$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Don Awalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's the driver name for the ethernet standard driver?
Just visit http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Bye ... Tobias
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: Help! My awe32 suddenly stopped working
Date: 07 Jul 1999 19:21:05 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
does 'cat /dev/sndstat' report everything correctly? Can you play an
au file doing 'cat foo.au >> /dev/audio'?
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Supra Express 56i Modem
Date: 07 Jul 1999 19:24:58 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
did you check to see whether it's a winmodem?
-ckm
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Subject: Re: Filesystem on DAT Tape Recorder?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 08 Jul 1999 08:54:14 -0400
Horst Wetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have an SCSI DAT Tape Recorder connected to my linux box.
>
> Is it possible to put a filesystem on a tape and mount the tape like a
> floppy?
no. tapes have sequential access -- not random access. this wouldn't
make sense.
> If it is possible, how can I do this?
i use tar with my tapes. the _t_ in tar stands for _tape_. use the
tape device as your `file'.
tar cvf /dev/st0
(assuming /dev/st0 is your DAT tape)
there are better back-up programs than tar. cpio is one (but i've
never bothered to learn its arcane collection of options). there are
specialized incremental backup softwares like the proprietary BRU.
incidentally, you can use tar for floppies too. i do
tar cvf /dev/fd0
to transport small stuff amonst unix boxen.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
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Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "Robert L. McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:46:53 -0500
How is it that Linux is able to stress the CPU more or less than Windows? I
can understand that the possibility is there when the OS is idle, but how is
that possible otherwise? The CPU is simply executing a series of machine
instructions. If the CPU is busy, why does it matter if it's busy executing
machine code in Windows or in Linux?
"David E. Fox" wrote:
> In article <ZmV73.1106$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bryan wrote:
>
> >Vaisbrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >: I saw somewhere than because of Linux's better (i.e. complete) usage of
> >: the CPU, it was tricky to overclock it, whichever the CPU model may be.
> >
>
> >in fact, just the opposite, imho. its known that linux heats cpu's up
> >less when the system isn't running at full 100% util. linux executes
> >the HALT instr which saves energy. 'doze, otoh, is ALWAYS in a busy
>
> True, but it's really more complicated than that. A linux system doing
> something like compiling the kernel is likely going to be pushing
> hardware a lot farther (and consequently may show negative effects of
> overclocking) than a typical Windows machine will. In situations
> like this, the idling really doesn't help.
>
> Even a linux machine not doing much other than running a few programs
> in X or what have you may look like it could tolerate overclocking OK, but
> will just flop over with a segmentation fault when trying to compile
> the kernel. That's what I observed when I attempted early on to overclock
> my current P-100 to 133.
>
> >Bryan [at] Grateful.Net
> >http://www.Grateful.Net
>
> --
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> David E. Fox Tax Thanks for letting me
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] the change magnetic patterns
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] churches on your hard disk.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install on Jaz disk
Date: 07 Jul 1999 19:23:31 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
of course people have used a Jaz drive...you may need to tell the
installer what kind of scsi host you have so it can load the
appropriate module.
-ckm
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From: Dave Senciall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NIC IRQ Problem
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 01:42:08 -0230
can you disable to com port in bios , if an older type board via
jumper??
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http://members.tripod.com/davsen
http://oceanography.nwafc.nf.ca:81 (when firewall is in mood)
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:18:05 -0500
From: Skipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Internal Modem
Asim Shankar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have an internal ISA Plug-N-Play USRobotics 33.6Kbps FAX modem.
> I just installed Caldera OpenLinux 2.2
>
> How do I get the modem working in Linux??
>
> I retrieved some info from the Windows' Device Manager, namely the IO
> addresses and IRQ for the modem, if that helps. It's also assigned COM3 in
> Windows.
>
> IO - 03E8-03EF
> IRQ - 5
>
> Please tell me how to get this modem functional for Kppp etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Asim Shankar
You might want to go ahead and get that nice new 56k external modem at this
point. I had troubles getting Linux to recognize my plug and pray modem and
had to return it in exchange for an external. Boy, am I glad I did. Now I
have quick easy access and no problems. Good Luck.
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Date: 08 Jul 99 09:19:28 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bad/semi-usable sectors? (Workarounds for hard disk anomaly?)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to FM ;
This doesn't really sound like a bad disk, or it very likely would have
totally failed in the ensueing few hours you have 'played' with it.
What it does sound like is something like flaky cabling, or maybe a bad
bios mode choice. Possibly a bad chip in the interface.
It just doesn't walk like an incipient drive failure because anything
that wide spread tends to expand exponentially, and rapidly. And has
done so in every instance I've been personally present at.
There was a paper published a few years back when HP was developing the
GMR head technology. They were also looking at being able to predict
from the error rates they were having, a method to warn of an impending
total failure. It was usually so catastrophic that the failure warning,
and the failure, were less than 20 minutes running time apart, with no
powerdown cycles interveneing.
If you have a spare plug in another machine, I'd "change everything but
the drive" to see if the problem persists.
> Does anyone know if any disk-checking utilities for Linux
> can mark sectors as bad even if they are read/writable
> (perhaps using timeout criteria)? I seem to have a bunch of
> sectors on my HD that are technically usable but have
> unacceptable access time. Below is a longer version of the
> story and I'd appreciate any other relevent information.
> Thanks a lot.
> I just got a new laptop (Mag TinyNote) on Tuesday.
> Naturally, one of the first things on my to-do-list was to
> install Linux (I had already purchased a RedHat 6.0 CD from
> CheapByte). So I divided the partition (using FIPS; I had
> nothing to lose anyway) and installed RedHat Linux, spending
> hours on package selection (copying files onto the hard disk
> also took hours but I never suspected that the hardware was
> at fault). On first boot, however, I received a message that
> there are errors in filesystem, and that checking is forced;
> and sometime later an error message from automatic run of
> fsck (inconsistency error or whatever). Upon manual run of
> fsck, I was faced with several "short read errors" and
> prompts (Ignore? it quits upon no ignores upon yes) but no
> offer to fix any problems. I concluded that something was
> seriously wrong (including the possibility that these
> programs themselves are corrupt; I still hoped it was
> all-software) and decided to do everything all over. At
> first I just deleted the Linux partitions and created a
> FAT32 drive instead, just to see what scandisk would have to
> say. The result was astounding. The scandisk took about 4-5
> seconds checking normal 1024 clusters (4k per cluster) but
> literaly forever on some blocks. I got bored after following
> it for a while and went to sleep. I was surprised to find
> that it was only about 1/3 done (on a 1.2 partition) when I
> woke up, after probably running for 10+ hours. I quit the
> program and found 100 clusters marked as bad. At this point
> I was fairly sure that it was hardware problem and recalled
> "check for bad sectors during format" option from RedHat
> setup. I then wiped out and repartitioned the entire hard
> disk (superstitiously hoping this somehow changes anything)
> installing Win98 on the first partition and then Linux on
> the next. I received a kernel panic while Red Hat setup was
> formatting the root partition (where all the errors reside)
> but I just ran the setup again. The same formatting part of
> the setup finished after around 3 hours but I thought it was
> a one-time deal. (Btw, I wonder whether it is software that
> tries several times to access the data or hardware; I
> assumed that it was hardware because all programs, including
> MS-DOS format, scandisk (dos/win), fsck, RedHat setup
> format, exhibited similar pattern). Copying files took
> merely (in comparison) about 20 minutes and soon I was at
> the linux startup screen. Then when INND (don't ask me why I
> need this on a laptop :) was starting, I noticed a temporary
> freeze with the exact access pattern (well by the sound and
> HD indicator light; I'm rather sensitive about those) that
> disk utilities were showing when they were accessing the
> troubled parts of the disk. I panicked but fortunately the
> kernel didn't and INND started up without an error. I then
> configured X which then started with GNOME/Enlightenment.
> Again the same sort of temporary freeze (3-20 seconds) with
> the same sort of HD access pattern occurred with some
> programs, especially when I was browsing with a file
> manager. With disappointment I concluded that there are many
> sectors that are bad but haven't been marked as such because
> they are somehow usable. But they are so slow; after all one
> bottleneck is all you need to bring down
> usability/performance and having to access (without warning)
> parts of a hard disk that are slower than a floppy provides
> exactly that. So for now I returned to Win98 (all the errors
> are isolated on the Linux partition; and I haven't got
> around setting up the ethernet card) and wrote up this
> piece. I think the warranty should cover this problem but it
> might not be worth it if I have to pay for shipping. It's
> only a two-gig hard disk after all and the defect is minor.
> But does the fact that it already has problems make it more
> likely to introduce errors in the future?
> Again, thanks in advance.
> Dan.
Cheers, Gene
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Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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From: "Jeff Volckaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Making MPEG movies from AVI?
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 08:52:55 -0400
Hello Everybody,
I have a hauppauge tuner card in my Redhat 6.0 system that i've been using
XawTV with to watch TV. I've been messing around with the AVI capture
utility 'streamer' to make movies. I'd like to compress these to MPEG
movies and downloaded 'mpeg2encode'.
I have three problems... the first is I can't get sound with streamer. I
hear sound when it captures, but no sound when I view the AVI. Anyone
encounter this and fix it?
The second problem is I can't play the AVI movies under Windows. I can play
them under Linux (w/o sound), but both realplayer and media player don't
work.
The third problem is I can't figure out how to convert the AVI movies to
MPEG in mpeg2encode. It wants a parameter file. I copied one of the sample
parameter files and they all want seperate files for each frame. Anyone
used this program before?
BTW, once I get this all figured out I want to convert family video to MPEG
movies to ship downstate to the rest of the family. I have another little
one on the way (i.e. baby) and want to be setup in the next few weeks.
TIA,
Jeff Volckaert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lexmark 1000C help needed!
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 13:17:39 GMT
take a look to special LINUX forum
http://www.zdnet.de/forum/
there are many tips and addresses (like fax or email)
if you need support to GDI-printer (for example LEXMARK 1000)
n article <7kmtng$n2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong) wrote:
> Th. Voss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Greetings to the world!
>
> : Has anyone magaed to get a Lexmark 1000C up and running under SuSE
> : Linux? I use release 6.0 and I'm at the end of my nerves...
>
> It's a WinPrinter so support will be slim (if not none).
> Currently someone has managed to put up a driver for the 7000/7200
which
> sort of works from what I've been reading for the 5000/5700. So far
it
> is a no go on the 1000 series or 3200.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Teddy Wang)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k,amiga.linux
Subject: Reading Amiga Formatted Zips Under Linux (Re: Reading Mac Zip Disks)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 06:04:06 GMT
I've got a similar problem. I'm trying to mount Zip disks which I
formatted with AmigaOS on my SUSE 6.1 based Intel box. The kernel has
AFFS support already built in, but trying to mount /dev/sdb or
/dev/sdb1 (it's a SCSI zip) don't work. Has anybody gotten this to
work?
Teddy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:47:06 -0700, Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Never had to use this trick (or read the man page), I always compile in
>all partition formats and filesystems I need. hmount /dev/sdb3 is what I
>use :-)
>
>But thanks anyway, that'll help me next time I can't simply reboot with
>the right kernel.
>
> Michael
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From: Sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.,fido.ger.linux,linux.dev.newbie,linux.dev.serial
Subject: WISECOM INTERNAL PCI MODEM
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 14:34:49 +0200
Hello World !!!!!
I've a question referring to the modem above. I heard that it should be
supported bij the kernel. Nevertheless I'm not able to find it. But the
modem is recognized bij linux, but as an unknowned device. Oh, right I'm
using kernel 2.2.5.
I also checked th /init.d/serial for the right settings, but either the
modem is not answering or busy.
PLEASE HELP ME. I HATE MICROSOFT (MOST OF THE TIME).
Luke
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From: Richard Prout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 400GB disk, tape hardware required for RH 6.0 Intel
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 05:23:03 +0100
Hi,
If anyone could suggest hardware/drivers to use for a 400GB disk array
and associated tape I would be very happy. Thanks in advance.
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From: Craig Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Xerox DocuPrint P8
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 07:04:11 GMT
I'm pretty sure that this is a Windows Only printer, although nothing in
its description led me to believe this before I bought it. Does anyone
out there have one of these working, or am I SOL.
Craig.
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI v. IDE boot conflict (Linux-only system)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 07:42:35 -0700
On 8 Jul 1999, John McKown wrote:
> If I read things correctly, this will put LILO on the MBR of the IDE HD.
> But /dev/sda1 will still be your root file system. I'm fairly sure this
> should work. I hope it is helpful.
worked here - before I got rid of the IDE hd
GErald
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From: Greg Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: diamond stealth III S540
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 16:01:14 +0800
Hi All
Has anyone got an idea on what driver I should use for a Diamond Stealth
III S540 AGP video Card
Thanks
Greg
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Greg Dickson
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//\ Linux System Admin,
v_/_ Perl and Java Programing
Margaret River Western Australia
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