Linux-Hardware Digest #147, Volume #9 Sun, 10 Jan 99 14:13:32 EST
Contents:
Re: Problems partitioning HDD 8.4GB (Henry Wong)
Lexmark 2050 Color Inkjet Printer and Linux? ("Kevin Jennings")
Re: Modem (Rockwell 56.6 PCI data/fax) probs (Henry Wong)
Re: fastest video card supported by redhat 5.2? (Nicholas Lee)
WinTV, bttv und xawtv (Fritz B�sebeck)
WinTV, bttv und xawtv (Fritz B�sebeck)
Re: Are non-Intel CPU's (AMD) o.k. with Redhat? (David Hayes)
Re: Where to buy equipment? (Virtual)
Have a Question about Fujitsu M2513A MODD ("Alex A. Akimoff")
An error: "unable to load interpreter". (Shree Vaithilingam)
Onboard SCSI problem (SaNdMaN FOREVER)
Re: ATI XPERT@PLAY AGP (Mikael Matasaho)
Linux web cam question ("Watson, Bruce (EXCHANGE:AIRPT:3181)")
Re: wmppp problem. Can't give permissions so all users can use dial out. ("Oded
Arbel")
How to look for a network card ("Oded Arbel")
Re: N64/Dreamcast port (Tarcus)
Re: fastest video card supported by redhat 5.2? ("Justin R. Erenkrantz")
Re: iomega atapi zip drive under RedHat5.2 (Kyle Dansie)
Re: Linux FREEZES! (Henrik Carlqvist)
how to install from external cdrom ("Jan van Dalen")
Re: Turtle Beach Montego supported on Linux? (John Ericson)
Re: Oxygen 102 opengl and Linux (John Ericson)
Software RAID on a Pentium 233? (Kevin Mills)
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From: Henry Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems partitioning HDD 8.4GB
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:02:34 -0500
Am not familiar with SUSE 5.3 initial load procedures and the software it =
uses. However, if you haven't already, have you tried the following:
1) loading a different OS such as MS Windows (any flavor)
2) you determined the partition that hung when you tried using the =
disk's original configuration. Did you try to determine which
cylinder the hang occurred on? Am not familiar with your BIOS, =
but if your install program uses the BIOS routines for accessing
disk there may be a limitation on the total number of cylinders
it can access. The limitation could be 1024. You might try
repartitioning so that your root, swap and usr fit within this
limitation and not worry about the others till after you've loaded
Linux which uses its own access routines.
I hope this helps.
Henry
Moedl Albert und Christine wrote:
> =
> Hey all,
> =
> i=B4m working on my new WS:
> =
> Asus P2B-DS
> 256 MB
> SCSI CDROM
> IBM HDD: EIDE 8.4 GB - 16H/63SEC/16383CYL (this informations are on top
> of the HDD)
> =
> OS: SUSE 5.3
> =
> First i used the SUSE installationroutine from bootable CDROM. Partition
> procedure shows strang parameters for my HDD: 255H/...
> =
> By using this parameters creating file systems locks up my machine every
> time (independent from my speziel partition table - i tried out
> different partitions ).
> =
> So, i=B4m using SUSE Secure system from there CD and started with
> fdisk (expert modus) to set the right HDD parameter: 16H/... and then i
> created new partitions.
> After saving, i continued to create filesystems with mke2fs -i 2048
> /dev/hda[1-7].
> After initalising /dev/hda[1-3] it locks up my machine while writing
> inode tables (after writing about 333 - 355 inodes out of 992 or 500 for
> example ). Sometimes it locks up while writing filesystem informations.
> I tried out different partition tables:
> =
> 200 MB swap
> 200 MB /
> rest /usr
> =
> or
> =
> 200 MB swap
> 200 MB /
> 4 GB /export
> 2.5 GB /usr
> 500 M /opt
> 500 M /var
> =
> Always the same result. After initalising just the first partitions,
> starting with hda1 (=3D/) it locks up my machine.
> =
> Whats wrong?
> Is this a hardware or softwareproblem?
> Is there a problem to partition this large HDD?
> =
> thanks for any advice!
> Albert
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From: "Kevin Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lexmark 2050 Color Inkjet Printer and Linux?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:14:06 -0600
I just recently set up Redhat 5.1 Linux on my PC. I've read that only
Postscript printers are supported under Linux, but I don't know if that's
true. Can anyone with more Linux knowledge than I (which is practically
everyone!) tell me if it's possible to use a Lexmark Inkjet printer under
Linux, possibly using Star Office?
Thanks!
Kevin
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From: Henry Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem (Rockwell 56.6 PCI data/fax) probs
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:30:11 -0500
I too was looking for a PCI V.90 modem. What I found at the local CompUSA and
others were all Winmodem type modems. The box may or may not indicate whether
you must have windows to run it.
In one case, I bought one that said it was Windows compatible and still found
that it wouldn't work. When I called the technical support hotline, I was
transferred to a tech who knew about the problem and was told that they only
support Windows.
During a discussion on this news group, someone had located a new modem
announcement from MultiTech that looked like it may be usable. Someone had
E-mailed the company and received a response. See posting under
"Re: winmodems" by "David J. Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 08:21:44 GMT.
Henry
Dave Rodgman wrote:
>
> The modem appears to be completely dead. I have tried echoing commands to
> /dev/modem and /dev/cua3, but nothing happens. It works fine under
> Windows... albeit with a terrible ping. Does anyone know if I've been sold a
> rebranded winmodem, or maybe have some suggestions?
>
> TIA
>
> Dave
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From: Nicholas Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fastest video card supported by redhat 5.2?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:17:05 +0000
Oded Arbel wrote:
> I think that the RivaTNT I use is realy fast.. unlike most cards I
> heard about, this one is just a litle slower in X-Windows then in win95,
> and it is definetly blazing fast.
> Oded
I guess benchmarking is difficult, how have you actually compared them?
How
quickly it redraws the screen with multiply windows in it?
I was considering the G200 instead because I thought that the TNT was
slower in
linux. I might have to reconsider.
Thanks,
Nicholas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fritz B�sebeck)
Subject: WinTV, bttv und xawtv
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:38:55 +0100
Hallo!
Nach einigen stunden Arbeit habe ich es dann doch geschaffe die WinTV
PCI/Radio zum Laufen zu kriegen, aber irgendwie ist die Qualit�t nicht
so ganz besonders, unter WinDOOF sieht das irgendwie besser aus.
Wenn ich GRABIMAGE benutze ist die Qualit�t wirklich gut, nur alles
etwas langsam, stelle ich auf OVERLAY, dann ist es zwar schnell, aber
mit den Einstellungen mu� ich lange spielen, um ein einigerma�en
brauchbares Bild zu bekommen, meist bekomme ich Falschfarben (au�er ich
stelle den contrast fast auf 0!).
Irgendwie tr�bt das das Fersehvergn�gen unter Linux, und ich will kein
WINDOOF nutzen!
Vielleicht hat ja jemand �hnliche Probleme und sie im g�nstigsten Fall
gel�st?
Liegts an meiner Grafikkarte (RivaTNT) ?
An meine X-einstellungen (Highcolor, 1600x1200)?
cu,
Stephan
Antwortet bitte auch per Mail an mich: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fritz B�sebeck)
Subject: WinTV, bttv und xawtv
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:39:27 +0100
Hallo!
Nach einigen stunden Arbeit habe ich es dann doch geschaffe die WinTV
PCI/Radio zum Laufen zu kriegen, aber irgendwie ist die Qualit�t nicht
so ganz besonders, unter WinDOOF sieht das irgendwie besser aus.
Wenn ich GRABIMAGE benutze ist die Qualit�t wirklich gut, nur alles
etwas langsam, stelle ich auf OVERLAY, dann ist es zwar schnell, aber
mit den Einstellungen mu� ich lange spielen, um ein einigerma�en
brauchbares Bild zu bekommen, meist bekomme ich Falschfarben (au�er ich
stelle den contrast fast auf 0!).
Irgendwie tr�bt das das Fersehvergn�gen unter Linux, und ich will kein
WINDOOF nutzen!
Vielleicht hat ja jemand �hnliche Probleme und sie im g�nstigsten Fall
gel�st?
Liegts an meiner Grafikkarte (RivaTNT) ?
An meine X-einstellungen (Highcolor, 1600x1200)?
cu,
Stephan
Antwortet bitte auch per Mail an mich: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Hayes)
Subject: Re: Are non-Intel CPU's (AMD) o.k. with Redhat?
Date: 10 Jan 1999 15:51:07 GMT
On 9 Jan 1999 18:33:54 GMT, John Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. I'm a newbie who is thinking of buying a cheap
> (~$500) 266 MHz AMD k6 - based clone. Is Redhat 5.2
> linux known to run well with non-Intel processor sets?
John, I'm running exactly that configuration. I use an AMD K2-2-266 on
an Epox MVP3E motherboard. That has the VIA chipset, not Intel. I've not
had any difficulty with it at all.
--
David Hayes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Virtual <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where to buy equipment?
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux
Reply-To: lost-soul@heaven's.gate
Date: 10 Jan 1999 02:05:58 PST
In comp.periphs.scsi Connie Faust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have looked at retail stores, I think I can save and get decent
> service through a Cyber dealer or Mail order??
If you know exactly what you need and not planning on returning
it, I suggest www.hardwarestreet.com. (I'm not affiliated with
them, but they had the best price on the HA I purchased)
If you're not sure, just use any nearby retail store.
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From: "Alex A. Akimoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Have a Question about Fujitsu M2513A MODD
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 19:03:14 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have an Fujitsu M2513A Magneto-optical drive on my computer. It works
fine under
Win95, but I don't know how to setup it in Linux (I'm relative new in
Unix world).
This device has UW-SCSI-2 interface, and works with 640Mb hard-sectored
(2048bps) disks. During boot kernel correctly determines SCSI-adapter
and MO drive, but than says, that disk has 0.0M capacity and "can't read
partition table on /dev/sda".
Please, tell me, what I can do whith it?
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From: Shree Vaithilingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: An error: "unable to load interpreter".
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 10:58:28 -0500
I hope someone could explain this to me.
A machine that has been running just perfect started spit out this error
recently so often for no apparent reason. When this happens, only fix I
have found is reboot. Absolutely Nothing works. I have tried to upgrade
the kernel to 2.0.36 with no luck. It is currently running with 2.0.33.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Shree Vaithilingam
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From: SaNdMaN FOREVER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Onboard SCSI problem
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:12:21 +0200
Hello.
I have a ASUS P2L97-S mainboard with an onboard Adaptec AIC7880 SCSI chip.
I have 2 SCSI hard drives attached to the 68-pin cable and a SONY CDU
948-S CD burner on the 50 pin cable. I'm running RedHat Linux 5.2 and I'm
using the aic7xxx module for SCSI support.
The problem is that every time there's intense SCSI activity (i.e. copying
large files) the system freezes completely: no display, no keyboard, no
network, nothing.
There is another thing I should mention: the SCSI BIOS detects the devices
in this order: HDD1 (id 4) - CD burner (id 0) - HDD2 (id 5), but the Linux
SCSI module detects the CD burner first, then the 2 HDD's.
Has anyone else run into this? Any ideas?
Regards,
SaNdMaN.
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From: Mikael Matasaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI XPERT@PLAY AGP
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:26:24 GMT
I have expert@work with rage pro III with 264GT3 chip. My Xfree 3.3.3
with kernel 2.0.36 works well in 1028z800 32 bpp, but when trying to run
quake (renderers soft, softx, svga) I have problems.
With softx renderer, only half of window is filled with quake, other
half stays black
With soft renderer, the only resolution I can use is 320x200.
I have tried to change /etc/vga/libvga.config - settins for all (VGA,
Mach64, SVGA) settings but I won't help. With mach64 quake generates
segmentation fault as well as with SVGA. With VGA settings can't change
better resolution.
Mixu
"David H." wrote:
>
> I had a similar problem with the ATI Rage 3d Pro LT chipset. If you install
> the SVGA server but don't uninstall the ATI Mach 64 (which your board is).
> Add the line DefaultColorDepth 16 to the XF86Config file in the Server? area
> (man XF86Config for the right area). Run X. If it works, X should start.
> Then exit X. The script that started X said that it found an ATI Mach 64
> chipset, with 4mb sgram, and a 25mhz clock and such, and ran it from there.
> Maybe it's only mine though.
>
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From: "Watson, Bruce (EXCHANGE:AIRPT:3181)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux web cam question
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 09:57:23 -0500
I need to add some remote cameras to an existing RH v5.1 based web
server. The cameras will be from 30 to 100 meters away from the Linux
box, so I can't use any out-of-the-box web cams. I think I need a
combination of frame grabber card and CCD camera that can talk to each
other over some variety of coax cable. The end result is to have a web
page that is "continuously" updated from the cameras.
Can anyone point me toward commercially available hardware / Linux
software drivers to help me accomplish this? Any help or pointers are
appreciated.
--
Bruce Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software Engineer 919.905.4039
Nortel Signaling Solutions Group ESN.355.4039
Dept. 3181, MS O8Z001, Loc. AIRPT
Morrisville, NC 27560
The opinions expressed here are mine, and not necessarily Nortel's.
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From: "Oded Arbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wmppp problem. Can't give permissions so all users can use dial out.
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:40:52 +0200
Gary J Sanderson wrote in message <7760qp$nm9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Having configured wmppp correctly so that it works in root,
I try to use wmpp, but I can't seem to make it dial and disconnect ... how
do you do it ?
I'm using AfterStep on RedHat 5.1 , and my DUN is configured through the
RedHat Control Panel (in 3 easy steps).
I also can't make it look alright when swallowed into the wharf, I use the
MaxSwallow option, and it still looks a litle bit (3 pixels or so) to the
right and down so it doesn't sit well in the panel.
any help please ?
Oded
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From: "Oded Arbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to look for a network card
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:51:14 +0200
I installed RedHat 5.1 on an HDD, and then took the HDD to a second computer
where it should sit and do some server stuff. on that computer I have a
network card, but not on the computer I installed linux on, so when I told
the RedHat installation to configure a LAN workstation, it didn't found a
network card, and I had to continue w/o conifguring LAN. after I've put the
HDD where it belongs, how can run the LAN configuration process again ? (I
don't want to reinstall everything from scratch - nor do I think I can).
another question if you may - I have a 3 button mouse, but it seem to be
working so only under Linux, under win95 I only have 2 buttons .. how come ?
I once used a 3 button logitech pilot and it worked ok on both system , what
am I missing here ?
Oded
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tarcus)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.linux
Subject: Re: N64/Dreamcast port
Date: 10 Jan 1999 15:36:55 GMT
In article <77344q$qtu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel Drewes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> There is a Playstation port AFAIK.
>
> Err... there was an april fool's joke in a german magazine (i'X)
> that some people took too serious.
2 megs of RAM and 128K of writeable space.. 256K if you get two memory
cards!
Ridiculous...
--
>From the keyboard of Tarcus himself, running Linux in the UK.
-- There are no facts, only opinions --
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From: "Justin R. Erenkrantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fastest video card supported by redhat 5.2?
Date: 10 Jan 1999 18:10:15 GMT
The G200 is fast in both XWindows and in Windows9x/NT. Plus, with the
2.2.0pre* series (not sure exactly when it was introduced), the console
itself is G200 accelerated (why though??). Works great (try a RivaTNT with
BeOS - hahaha). Just make sure you use XFree86 3.3.3 (3.3.2 doesn't support
the G200). I'm not entirely sure the RivaTNT is supported by XFree86 or the
like. It might be - I just may have missed it when I looked it up.
Justin
Nicholas Lee wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Oded Arbel wrote:
>
>> I think that the RivaTNT I use is realy fast.. unlike most cards I
>> heard about, this one is just a litle slower in X-Windows then in win95,
>> and it is definetly blazing fast.
>> Oded
>
>
>I guess benchmarking is difficult, how have you actually compared them?
>How
>quickly it redraws the screen with multiply windows in it?
>
>I was considering the G200 instead because I thought that the TNT was
>slower in
>linux. I might have to reconsider.
>
>Thanks,
>Nicholas
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 09:52:54 -0700
From: Kyle Dansie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iomega atapi zip drive under RedHat5.2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> At first i've read the zip drive mini-HOWTO which tells me the only thing i
> have to do is to enable the "Atapi floppy support" in the kernel(my version is
> 2.0.36 so it should support atapi).
>
> Now it should be mounted as an extended partition on partition 4, but mine
> still remains at hdb:
>
> hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100, 96MB w/16kB Cache, CHS=97/32/63
>
> and later this:
>
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
> hdb:hdb: irq timeout: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
>
> when i try to mount hdb, this happens:
> hdb:read-intr:status=0*59{ DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest error}
> hdb:read-intr:error=0*10 {sector ID NOT FOUNd}
>
> so can anybody tell me what's wrong? and how can i get it working in a
> correctly way?
>
What is the mount command that you used? Try using this command.
mount -t msdos /dev/hdb4 /mnt
What is the result?
Good Luck,
Kyle Dansie
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux FREEZES!
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 13:41:32 +0100
Alessandro Ferioli wrote:
> Expertcolor 4 Mb S3 AGP graphic adapter (DV5357).
> an ISA 3C503
> Simply the system (keyboard, mouse, applications) stops responding
> and I must hardware reset.
> The crashes are much more frequent with 24 bit color X server instead
> of 8 bit color X server (XFree 3.3.2).
Is it possible to telnet into the machine from the network? If so you
could try to kill the X-server and see if it helps. However, I think
that the S3 servers are considered very stable. If it doesn't help to
kill the X-server but you are able to telnet into the machine, at least
you will probably be able to shutdown the machine in a controlled way.
regards Henrik
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From: "Jan van Dalen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to install from external cdrom
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 17:58:11 +0100
Just trying to install Redhat 5.2 I only have a external cd rom, IDE how can
I fix this.
Greetz. Jan
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From: John Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach Montego supported on Linux?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:59:07 +0100
I have a Turtle Beach Montego too, and you wont get it working with any
stable kernels yet. But drivers are under construction, for more info go
to "www.opensound.com". Im not 100% at the URL, it maybe was .org or
something like that.
Jorrit Tyberghein wrote:
>
> The subject says it (almost) all.
> I have a DELL with a Turtle Beach Montego and ATS Lansing speakers
> (via USB connector).
>
> Can this setup work on Linux? I think it can't with the latest stable kernel
> but maybe there are patches or maybe the development kernel supports
> this driver?
>
> Greetings and thanks in advance,
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jorrit Tyberghein ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Project Manager of Crystal Space, a free and portable 3D 6DOF portal engine.
> More info at: http://crystal.linuxgames.com
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: John Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Oxygen 102 opengl and Linux
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:44:46 +0100
The only opengl cards I know working with Linux is the 3DFX cards.
hiro johnny wrote:
>
> I have this spare oxygen 102 board just sitting around (don't ask,
> it wouldn't work in my proliant) and I'd really like to put it
> to some use other than a paperweight.
>
> Are there any sort of Linux drivers for such a beast?
>
> c.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Mills)
Subject: Software RAID on a Pentium 233?
Date: 10 Jan 1999 18:48:39 GMT
I am considering running software RAID 0 with 2 9GB UltraWide SCSI drives.
Will a Pentium 233 MMX provide enough horsepower to make this a viable setup?
I'll probably be using a Mylex 958 card, if that matters.
How about a dual Pentium 233 system? Better, worse, the same? And are the
software RAID drivers SMP safe?
Thanks much.
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