Linux-Hardware Digest #977, Volume #9 Fri, 9 Apr 99 12:13:36 EDT
Contents:
Re: HP Deskjet 710c (Tommy Kelly)
Creative WebBlaster II Webcam (root)
STB Velo 4400 and TV out (Manfred Becker)
Diamond SpeedStar A50 8 meg AGP video ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Any reason to avoid VAResearch or Penguin Computing? ("Robert C. Paulsen, Jr.")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Johan
Kullstam)
Re: This is why I want SCSI in the first place... (John Burton)
Re: MS-LINUX ("Geoff Winkless")
Re: HP Deskjet 710c (Alan Fried)
3c589D And Diskless Workstation ("Wesley J. Janik")
Problem with losing time. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Newbie help please ("Jim Bailey")
Re: FireWire / IEEE1394-support in Linux? (Stephen Bradly)
sblive linux driver info... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie help please ("Jim Bailey")
Re: Problem with losing time. (Lew Pitcher)
Re: cdrecord 1.61, Plasmon CDR480 problem (Martin Heitz)
Re: Modem : which is the best? (Ben)
Sound on Compaq 5100 Workstation (Eladio Caritos)
Re: X terminal? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Tommy Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,freeserve.help.unix,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 710c
Date: 09 Apr 1999 12:19:46 +0100
Tommy Kelly
> > >RedHat 5.2
> > >
> > >I can't get any response from my new HP Deskjet 710c.
"Chris":
> I think youll find that this is a win printer (Windows Only)
What exactly does that mean? Are you referring to PPA?
And how do you know?
> Harold Sargeant:
> > Try (as root) to print a text file by typing
> > cat file > /dev/lp1
> > and see what you get. You may get a staircase effect and the rest
> > blank but it is a start.
I tried this - under win98 the printer is on LPT1 as you
suggested.
In linux I got no response from the cat - no lights, no
staircase text, not even a murmer from the motors.
(But no error from the cat command - it just quietly returned
to the bash prompt, as if it had successfully cat'ed to
something).
:-(
t
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative WebBlaster II Webcam
Date: 9 Apr 1999 08:35:39 GMT
Has anyone done anything for a driver for this parallel port webcam?
Under /proc/parport/0/autoprobe, it is reported as:
CLASS:MEDIA;
MODEL:PPC2 Camera;
MANUFACTURER:VLSI Vision Ltd;
DESCRIPTION:Parallel Port Camera;
COMMAND SET:CPIA_1-20;
David
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From: Manfred Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: STB Velo 4400 and TV out
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 14:24:24 +0200
Hi,
does someone know how to activate the TV-Out of STB Velocity 4400 (with
Riva TNT).
Ciao
- Manfred -
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Date: 09 Apr 99 08:20:37 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond SpeedStar A50 8 meg AGP video
I am just assembling a linux box, and the video card, a Diamond
SpeedStar A-50, an 8 meg AGP that shares its memory with mainboard
memory, which is 64 megs of pc100 at the moment, can't be startx'd
because there's insuficient memory.
Are there special drivers available for it?
Also, can the system be restricted from starting all those ramdisks at
boot time, thereby leaving the video card some memory when it needs it
later? It starts 16 ramdisk devices of 4096k each at boot time. I
assume it would start 16 more if I put another 64 meg dimm in it. So
that seems like a waste of time for a startup project.
I've tried renaming some of them in the /dev assign, but that hasn't had
any effect.
Newbie here, just in case you couldn't tell. :-)
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040 50 megs fast/2 megs chip
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or |Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 22kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
--
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From: "Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any reason to avoid VAResearch or Penguin Computing?
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 08:03:02 -0500
Rodney Clang wrote:
>
> I need to build a 200 user Samba server asap and browsed up to VA
> Research and Penguin computing. Both seem OK, have heard more about VA
> but Penguin points out that VA's usage of Mylex controllers isn't as
> fast or wise as using ICP, ... and from what I've heard they are right.
I would highly recommend Mylex. I have a BusLogic 946C and have in the
past received excellent response from Mylex when I had a question --
once, when I was having a performance problem, they sent me a new BIOS
chip (in the end it was not a problem with the card or its BIOS).
When I first started using Linux a few years back I had a bunch of
beginner questions (and I still do!). Leonard Zubkoff was kind enough to
carry on a somewhat extensive e-mail conversation with me explaining
Linux, Windows, SCSI and various implementations and design trade-offs.
Based on this I bought my BusLogic 946C. It has proved to be rock solid.
When I upgrade to UW someday you can bet I will go to Mylex.
____________________________________________________________________
Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net
If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the
inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: 09 Apr 1999 08:19:26 -0400
"Charles R. Lyttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Not the point. In make the '\t' isn't white space it is a token. The old
> make was a simple script interpreter. If a line began with a \t it
> swallowed the \t and passed everything to the \n to the shell.
sure, but couldn't it have looked for whitespace (either tab or
space), swallowed it and passed everything else up to the newline to
the shell? *whitespace* would still be required.
> Using > that trick means that make did not have to evaluate the
> validity of anything that followed. Thus it was very fast and fit
> into 2k.
saving a grand total of 4 opcodes. even with the ritchie compiler and
a pdp-7 this would still be under 8 bytes of difference.
> By not
> requiring the \t, make has to know what are legal commands to pass to
> the shell or how to execute the commands itself.
i do not see how allowing any amount and mix of space and tab versus
only allowing one tab makes any difference. you would still fob the
first non-white char through the newline off to the shell.
> It therefore gets
> bigger and slower.
8 byte and a couple of compares. even with 2k of core its trivial.
> Not because of the code required to get rid of
> whitespace, but because it must now know about all the things that can
> begin a command line.
and it still wouldn't care.
> It has to know about ls dir less cp ..... (about
> 300 more things).
no it doesn't. all it has to know is that commands don't start with
space or tab. and if the command *does* start with a space or tab you
could always quote it, in which case the quote is not whitespace and
the whole load gets dumped on the shell.
> As an exercise, sit down and write a simple version of
> make using a scripting language such as Perl, Python, or Awk.
why?
> Write a
> program that just parses an input file looking for command lines to
> exec. Do it using the \t to begin command lines and without the \t. For
> now have it only accept input in a file named makefile.
ok so in the awk program i'd have
/^<tab><tab>*/
and then to enable arbitrary whitespace, i'd do this
/^[<tab><space>][<tab><space>]*/
where i'd have a tab and space chars instead of <tab> and <space>.
you can see by this discussion how hard it is to convey the difference
between space and tab in a text file. you can't just insert the char
itself but must resort to <tab> and <space> to speak sanely about it.
this is why the old make was so f'd up.
even in awk the difference isn't big. i am sure you'll disagree but
that's just because you're being obtuse.
i gave the relevant difference in C. i showed the resulting assembly
code. what more do you want?
--
johan kullstam
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: This is why I want SCSI in the first place...
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:31:20 GMT
Patrick McCall wrote:
>
> Attn Michael Meissner from above, as well as everyone else who has
> replied to my threads - thank you all.
>
> OK, seeing that SCSI is designed for duties other than what I will be
> doing, I'll look closer in to EIDE devices. If SCSI rates rarely
> reach into the max of the controller transfer rate (i.e. 20, 40, 80
> MB/sec, etc.), then I'll probably go with EIDE. Probably in that I'll
> still keep in mind some slower form of SCSI (just to keep my options
> open). This is why I like message boards - I can compare my opinions
> to that of others.
>
> To Micahel - Yes, I checked it out - the machine in question is fully
> Y2K compliant, and can handle up to a 166MHz P5 and 128MB RAM. I
> can't remember what the cache is; I'll have to check the IBM website.
>
> But just one more question and I'll stop. This one is for my own
> personal knowledge, if nothing else. I understand that it is rare or
> requires multiple disks to attain 40MB/sec and 80MB/sec transfer rates
> on SCSI channels. But is there a law of diminshing returns in effect
> here? I mean, on a SCSI-1 channel, is 5MB/sec ever reached with one
> or two disks? How about SCSI-2? Is 10MB/sec ever reached in the same
> fashion? If there is a FAQ somewhere that deals with this I would
> love to see it.
Okay, just my 2 cents worth... if you have a workstation (*not* a
server) that you are trying to keep the cost down, you might want to
look at something like this:
o get a small (< 3gb) EIDE drive running on your primary (i.e. onboard)
IDE channel
o CDROM running as master on your secondary IDE channel
o Buy a Promise Ultra-33 UDMA controller
o Buy a pair of fast UDMA drives (Seagate makes good 7200 rpm 6.5 and
9.1 gb drives)
o Put the pair on the UDMA controller on seperate channels
o partition each into a small (128MB) swap and the rest a Linux FS.
o Stripe the 2 linux fs partitions together into 1 large partition
using the software RAID utilities...
John
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From: "Geoff Winkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: MS-LINUX
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 13:49:49 +0100
TURBO1010 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ebcph$lkn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Thanks
> Jared Johnson wrote in message <7ebceq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >My hat's off to the writer ... I'm a little late reading due to a short
> >vacation but he had me convinced. Thanks for the good laugh and THANK
GOD
> >it isn't true!
Not particularly original though. Computer Weekly had the same Winux story
in this week's (April 1) edition.
Geoff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Fried)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,freeserve.help.unix,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 710c
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 13:45:51 GMT
Tommy Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tommy Kelly
>> > >RedHat 5.2
>> > >
>> > >I can't get any response from my new HP Deskjet 710c.
>
>"Chris":
>> I think youll find that this is a win printer (Windows Only)
>
>What exactly does that mean? Are you referring to PPA?
>And how do you know?
>
>> Harold Sargeant:
>> > Try (as root) to print a text file by typing
>> > cat file > /dev/lp1
>> > and see what you get. You may get a staircase effect and the rest
>> > blank but it is a start.
>
>I tried this - under win98 the printer is on LPT1 as you
>suggested.
>In linux I got no response from the cat - no lights, no
>staircase text, not even a murmer from the motors.
>
>(But no error from the cat command - it just quietly returned
>to the bash prompt, as if it had successfully cat'ed to
>something).
>
Download this puppy from this web site:
http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/software.html
and your problems will be solved.
It won't make the printer print in color though but
the developer of this fix hopes to have that straightenned
out in th future,
Hope this helps
Alan
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From: "Wesley J. Janik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c589D And Diskless Workstation
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 09:25:56 -0500
Is there anywhere I can get a driver for a 3c589D NIC that I can compile
into the kernel? I'm trying to my notebook into Linux with the root on
and NFS mount, and according to the howto (NFS Root-Client mini-howto),
I need to compile my NIC driver into the kernel. Is there another way
of doing this?
Thanks,
-Wes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: Problem with losing time.
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 14:45:33 GMT
Friday April 09 1999 04:22, John L. Spetz{I}{you} wrote to All{me}{you}:
JS> I find that the clock seems to lose a *lot* of time. Last night
JS> around midnight I reset the date and time. When I checked the
JS> time around 22:30 it thought the time was 04:10 or something like
Did you set the time zone correctly?
KS
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From: "Jim Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie help please
Date: 9 Apr 1999 13:33:50 GMT
I'm soooo close to getting running I can taste it - still some problems
though... I'm new to Linux (and pretty hardware ignorant) but a windows
developer.
AMD K6-2 350 - 128 MB
ATI Expert98 - 8MB Rage Pro Chipset - AGP
Hitachi 21" multiscan
Intellimouse Pro
RH 5.2 Workstation installation worked fine. I startx and it works ! I
guess I'm looking at 'fvwm' which, for the most part works too. I can
change mouse pointers, start editors etc.
Where my problem begins is if I click any where on the Control Panel
Application - the application won't repaint, the mouse will no longer scroll
on a scroll bar - and, when I exit fvwm, I get one of two symptoms: either
the system hangs completely while "shutting down gpm" or, it shuts down and
gets me back to the prompt, but I don't dare move the mouse because it puts
garbage all over the screen until I reboot.
Any help greatly appreciated
-- jim bailey
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From: Stephen Bradly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FireWire / IEEE1394-support in Linux?
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:16:15 +0100
Morten Dreier wrote:
>
> Is there FireWire/IE1394- support in the latest Linux kernels?
>
> ..would have been cool to use our new Radius FireWire-card in linux.. :)
>
> --
> Morten Dreier
> NTNU - Institutt for Datateknikk og Informasjonsvitenskap
> http://www.ifi.ntnu.no/~mdreier/
Check out:
http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/ieee1394/
I don't know what progress has been made, I haven't had the time to keep
up to date on developments.
Regards
Stephen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sblive linux driver info...
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 13:43:11 GMT
Just in case this information isn't already well known, here is a link for
those still curious about the developement of a linux sblive driver...
http://www.soundblaster.com/resources/news%2Dserver/faq%2Dsblive.html#3.4
Take Care all,
Scot Blickenderfer
"but this one goes to 11..."
-Nigel
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From: "Jim Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie help please
Date: 9 Apr 1999 13:51:49 GMT
Oops - a qualifier - I'm NOT trying to get wheel functionallity - just L-R
buttons !
Jim Bailey wrote in message <7ekvju$c3i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm soooo close to getting running I can taste it - still some problems
>though... I'm new to Linux (and pretty hardware ignorant) but a windows
>developer.
>
>AMD K6-2 350 - 128 MB
>ATI Expert98 - 8MB Rage Pro Chipset - AGP
>Hitachi 21" multiscan
>Intellimouse Pro
>
>RH 5.2 Workstation installation worked fine. I startx and it works ! I
>guess I'm looking at 'fvwm' which, for the most part works too. I can
>change mouse pointers, start editors etc.
>Where my problem begins is if I click any where on the Control Panel
>Application - the application won't repaint, the mouse will no longer
scroll
>on a scroll bar - and, when I exit fvwm, I get one of two symptoms: either
>the system hangs completely while "shutting down gpm" or, it shuts down and
>gets me back to the prompt, but I don't dare move the mouse because it puts
>garbage all over the screen until I reboot.
>
>Any help greatly appreciated
>
>-- jim bailey
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Problem with losing time.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 15:02:59 GMT
On Fri, 09 Apr 1999 14:45:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>Friday April 09 1999 04:22, John L. Spetz{I}{you} wrote to All{me}{you}:
>
>
> JS> I find that the clock seems to lose a *lot* of time. Last night
> JS> around midnight I reset the date and time. When I checked the
> JS> time around 22:30 it thought the time was 04:10 or something like
>
>Did you set the time zone correctly?
>
Does your system go into power-saving or "sleep" mode (APM) ?
This has been known to cause clock problems.
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Martin Heitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: cdrecord 1.61, Plasmon CDR480 problem
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 16:06:39 +0200
Hi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi. I just got a Sony CRX-100E, 4X/24X/2X CDRW ATAPI/EIDE drive and
> I'm having problems getting it to work.
I have a Plasmon CDR 480 SCSI - drive and it worked fine with my prior linux
installation (older Suse), but now I installed the new Suse linux with the
2.0.36 kernel and I cannot burn CDs any more. Why I am answering this posting?
The error-message and behavior seems to be exactly the same, although my drive
is a SCSI device.
> I have xcdroast 0.96e (and hence cdrecord 1.61).
So do I...
> Config: RedHat 5.2, 2.0.36, 64M RAM, Sony CRX100E is secondary slave (hdd).
Suse 6.0, 2.0.36, 32 MB RAM, Plasmon CDR 480 SCSI (device 0,05,0)
> xcdroast displays the drive and cdrecord -scanbus shows the drive, but when I
> go to write, it works for a couple of seconds and then ejects the CDR. I've
> included the log message that I'm getting.
The error on my system cannot be an error caused by xcdroast, because the error
appears also, if I call cdrecord from the command line... Depending on the CD
type (I tried different vendors for making sure, that it is not depending on
damaged disks) I am trying to burn, the "power calibration error" (see Ralph's
error messages below) evolves when the process starts or when the drive starts
trying to fixate.
The same hardware without any changes worked fine with my prior linux system
(sorry, I forgot which kernel that was)...
I read, that there are new and old scsi-devices in the /dev - directory. On my
system, there are both types (those with the numbers and those with the
characters). How can I figure out, which of them are used? May I delete some of
them (perhaps one part of cdrecord tries to use the older ones, the rest tries
to use the new ones)?
> I didn't see this particular Sony model listed in the cdrecord and/or
> xcdroast compatability list.
>
> Known problem?
> Fix? Easy fix?
Would be interested in that, too...
>
> Thanks.
> -Ralph
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Martin
> ------------------------
> Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J�rg
> [...]
> Manufacturer: TDK Corporation
I tried different manufacturers - error remains the same, but sometimes the
drive manages to write the whole data and fail at fixation instead of failing
directly at the beginning...
> [...]
> Starting new track at sector: 0
> /usr/local/CDR/xcdroast/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1:
> Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable
> error
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 73 03
> 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area
> error) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 2.931s timeout 40s
> /usr/local/CDR/xcdroast/lib/xcdroast-0.96e/bin/cdrecord-1.6.1:
> Input/output error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd:
> retryable error
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> [...]
--
http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~heitz/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"... Isch hab mir konkreed neue Audo gekaufd ..."
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From: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem : which is the best?
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 10:13:45 -0400
Stay away from "WIN MODEMS". I personally like USRobotics external.
Matthew Wilby wrote:
>
> So, which is the best modem to use under linux, or which gives the best
> results with minimum hassle?
>
> Cheers
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From: Eladio Caritos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound on Compaq 5100 Workstation
Date: 9 Apr 1999 14:32:27 GMT
I have Compaq 5100 workstation with a PremierSound Audio that came
preinstalled with the machine. Does anybody know how to set this up?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X terminal?
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 14:07:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Chris Evich (P0d)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does there exist a good cheap(?) X windows terminal/console thingie you
> can buy and plug into your network for running remote x-displays? Or is
> it cheaper to get a shitty pentium and do it that way?
You might be able to find a company that is unloading some X terminals;
but a Pentium will do a fine job. Just configure X and then put
X -bpp <whatever> -query <host>
into your inittab. Must be running xdm, wdm, or whatever on <host>
Mark
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