Linux-Hardware Digest #753, Volume #14 Thu, 10 May 01 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Joystrick with Mandrake 8 ("David Leblond")
Re: Will this system support linux? ("The Snowman")
Re: RedHat 7.1 install with GeForce Ultra 2 DDR (64Meg) (Toby Haynes)
Re: PCI modem 3COM/USR 2977 (Mark Slagell)
Re: aic7xxx module in RedHat Linux 7.1? ("SilentNight")
Re: aic7xxx module in RedHat Linux 7.1? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: LinkSys NIC ("Nick Lockyer")
Re: parallel port programming for linux? (SammyTheSnake)
Re: looking for tape backup recommendations (Michael Meissner)
Re: parallel port programming for linux? (Michael Meissner)
SIDE-RAID100 by Iwill (cistron)
NI GPIB on 2.4.3 kernel ("Allen K. Lair")
Re: parallel port programming for linux? ("The Snowman")
Re: NI GPIB on 2.4.3 kernel (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: NI GPIB on 2.4.3 kernel ("Allen K. Lair")
How Could i disable a device... ("Andrea [Akira] De Pirro")
Trust ISDN ("Andrea [Akira] De Pirro")
Freecom Traveller PCMCIA CD-RW problem (Sian Leitch)
Re: One more who needs help! (robert)
PCMCIA PCI Adapter (for wireless cards) ("Gerard Daubar")
Re: Will this system support linux? (Ronald Cole)
Voyetra Turtle Beach Santa Cruz driver ("t")
Re: CD Writer for Linux ("t")
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From: "David Leblond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Joystrick with Mandrake 8
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:00:01 GMT
In article <9dcc33$ks6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "michael james obrien"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Leblond ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Here is my porblem: I have
> a Sidewinder gamepad plugged into my SBLive : Value. I have loaded all
> the modules but still can't get it to work on : my system. What am I
> doing wrong?
>
> Which modules, exactly, have you loaded?
>
analog, joydev,gameport, ns558, and sidewinder
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From: "The Snowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will this system support linux?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:58:55 GMT
<snip>
> USD 900!!!! WTF! Why don't you just order from North America somewhere.
> With shipping included you'd still save 50%. And if after it arrived, it
> didn't work, you could always order another one, and break even. 2/2
> disfunctional CPUs is doubtful.
>
>
I agree. WTF??????? 1ghz athlons around here run just a little under 350
cdn, which is nowhere neat 900us. Things must be insanely priced there.
as for busted parts, most places would allow you to return a borked cpu. if
not, move on and find another site to order from.
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.1 install with GeForce Ultra 2 DDR (64Meg)
Date: 10 May 2001 10:55:40 -0400
On 9 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Installing RedHat 7.1 with a nVidia GeFOrce Ultra 2 DDR - AGP
>
> Well I am having problems with the booting
> and installation from the install CDs.
>
> Hardware config includes a nVidia GeForce Ultra 2 (64Meg)
> AGP [DDR] card and booting is fine selecting country code
> and keyboard and mouse, and once X starts up and the RedHat
> logo pages is shown the installation stalls and that's it.
>
> The SAME hardware, but with the TNT2-32Meg AGP card proceeds
> fine and installation runs fine...
>
> Any clues out there to get passed this problem.
>
> I have tried all install oprions from boot: prompt and
> ALL stall at effectively the same point...
Install with the TNT2 card in the machine and slot the GeForce 2 Ultra into the
machine once you have X running well on the TNT2. As the configuration and
driver files are the same, it should work straight off.
That said, you should probably install the NVIDIA drivers (0.9-767) and get
that working with 3D acceleration to start with on the TNT2. That might also
make a difference. The NVIDIA drivers are available from the NVIDIA web site -
you probably should install from tarballs as there won't necessarily be any
RPMs for RH 7.1 at this point.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: Mark Slagell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PCI modem 3COM/USR 2977
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:04:23 -0500
Nader wrote:
>
> And since your /proc/interrupts doesn't show "serial" next to IRQ 3 like it
> should, it seems that you have IRQ sharing problems. Try the serial driver
> upgrade and if that doesn't do it, try the kernel upgrade.
Thanks - somehow the fact that eth0 was also on irq 3 had slipped past
me.
Any way I can force the modem to another irq? I ask because the new
serial driver won't compile on 2.2.18, but upgrading to 2.4 would
probably mean buying a different video card (long story).
Mark
> Nader wrote:
>
> > I've been where you are now.
> >
> > 1) First, try upgrading your serial driver (see
> > http://serial.sourceforge.net/) to at least 5.05.
> >
> > 2) If that doesn't work, search http://groups.google.com for your modem and
> > linux issues.
> >
> > 3) If those don't work, try upgrading your kernel to 2.4.
> >
> > My issue was compounded by a PCI IRQ conflict between my modem and my UDMA66
> > controller. I could either patch my 2.2.16 kernel or upgrade to 2.4 to resolve
> > that. If you have ATA-66 or ATA-100, this may also be a problem for you.
> >
> > Let me know if you need more assistance.
> >
> > Nader
> >
> > Mark Slagell wrote:
> >
> > > I've been surfing around for the world's collected wisdom on making this
> > > modem work but am coming up empty so far. Possibly relevant info is
> > > below. Can anybody shed light?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > > -- Mark
> > >
> > > ---------------------------
> > > >uname -a
> > > Linux pc5053 2.2.18 #4 Mon Apr 9 14:58:16 CDT 2001 i686 unknown
> > > ---------------------------
> > > >lspci -v
> > > [...]
> > > 01:0b.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610
> > > (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
> > > Subsystem: US Robotics/3Com USR 56k Internal FAX Modem
> > > (Model 2977)
> > > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
> > > I/O ports at dff0
> > > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> > >
> ...
> > > 3: 32587 XT-PIC eth0
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From: "SilentNight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: aic7xxx module in RedHat Linux 7.1?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 23:05:13 +0900
I have Adaptec 2940W with both SCSI and IDE hard disks.
Installation has no problem, and boot up shows aic7xxx module is loaded
but when recompile kernel to add support win2000 NTFS system file, an error
message comes up saying that aic7xxx can not be found. It is weird.
I have tried reinstallation, recompilation about 20 times in total, each
time
the recompilation seems a bit different even though on same pc. But the
error
message on aic7xxx is the same. Now I temporarily use what i have here.
Give up on kernel recompilation.
This may not help any at all.
SN
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"Brian Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install RH Linux 7.1 on Interl PC server. The machine has
> SCSI HDD and need to use aic7xxx module. There was no probelm with
> RH 6.2 but can't complete to install RH 7.1.
>
> Installation is hanged with message, ``Loading AIC7XXX module''. How
> can I solve this? Any comments about this will be very helpful.
>
> - Brian,.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: aic7xxx module in RedHat Linux 7.1?
Date: 10 May 2001 16:15:22 GMT
Brian Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to install RH Linux 7.1 on Interl PC server. The machine has
> SCSI HDD and need to use aic7xxx module. There was no probelm with
> RH 6.2 but can't complete to install RH 7.1.
> Installation is hanged with message, ``Loading AIC7XXX module''. How
> can I solve this? Any comments about this will be very helpful.
RedHat's support site (look for 7.1 Gotchas) has a section about this --
check it out.
That being said, it has Just Worked for me.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: "Nick Lockyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LinkSys NIC
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:17:52 +0100
It it a module or built into the kernel. Is it possible the system sees the
module as unused for a while and unloads it?
Justin Mahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> EPOX MVP3G2
> AMD K6-2/450
> Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371
> LinkSys EtherPCI LAN Card II -> Terrayon Cable Modem
> Network Everywhere (LinkSys) NC100 10/100 -> LAN
> RedHat 7.1 Firewall/Masquerade
>
> I'm having a prob with the 10Mb uplink card. It works just fine until I
> leave it for a while and when I come back the card is 'Inactive'. What
logs
> should I look at to find out why it just stops working? I can 'Activate'
it
> just fine, but the wifey doesn't appreciate having to mess with the server
> comp while I'm away.
>
> The 10Mb uplink is configured with the default DHCP package that comes
with
> RH 7.1 and the 10/100Mb LAN card uses dhcpd that also came with RH7.1.
That
> part works wonderfuly. 8) I love having my own family name as a .net!
>
> You may have to reply by e-mail because this newsgroup is HUGE!
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake)
Subject: Re: parallel port programming for linux?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:53:08 +0100
In article <zCcK6.882$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, The Snowman wrote:
>Not sure if this is the right group, but it's more hardware related in
>nature than programming.
[snip]
have a look at the plip driver source code (/usr/src/linux/drivers/plip.c
IIRCFM) as it does pretty much everything you want to do...
Cheers & God bless
SammyTheSnake
--
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Linux, Hardware & Juggling specialist :-) | job, if you can help, e-mail me :)
Wheels: bike, 'ickle bike, and unicycle. | /o \/ Working on 5 ball 1/2 shower
Boxen: K6-266@300, dual Celery500 & Nx486 | \__/\ & some 6 / 7 ball exercises
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Subject: Re: looking for tape backup recommendations
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 May 2001 12:36:36 -0400
Daniel Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hey all -
>
> I am looking for recommendations for tape backup devices. Likely SCSI.
>
> Should I go DAT 4mm? DDS3? DDS4? If so, which hardware do people find
> most reliable?
I have had back luck with HP's DDS3 drives (my unit has failed 3 times within a
year). In terms of single vendor tape drives, I've good things about VXA
(http://www.ecrix.com/), but I don't have any personal experience with them.
> How about Exabyte? How does it compare to DAT? It seems to be a
> proprietary technology - can we be secure with it being around for a
> while?
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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Subject: Re: parallel port programming for linux?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 May 2001 12:43:55 -0400
"The Snowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2) I'm scrounging parts here :) therefore the fact that I have a few old
> printer cables and no machines with a free serial port influenced the
> decision.
If your application is better suited to 9 pin serial than parallel, and your
machine is fairly recent, you might want to think about USB serial devices
(particularly keyspan).
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: cistron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SIDE-RAID100 by Iwill
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:44:25 +0500
Dear friends,
Has anyone used ide SIDE-RAID100 by Iwill with Redhat 7.1 and 0
stripping. Is it of any use. Kindly send your experiences.
Thanks and Regards
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From: "Allen K. Lair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NI GPIB on 2.4.3 kernel
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:43:51 +0000
I've recently installed a National Instruments PCI-GPIB card for an
instrumentation control project but the driver provided by National
Instruments is exclusive to kernels <2.2.x. I am currently running
kernel 2.4.3 (which I would prefer to keep using).
Does anyone know of any workarounds to make the driver work under newer
kernels or of any drivers available from other vendors? I've tried
compiling the driver under 2.2.12 and doing an "insmod --force nigpib.o"
running 2.4.3 but I get about 10 unresolved symbol errors.
Any help would be appreciated!
Allen
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From: "The Snowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: parallel port programming for linux?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:13:50 GMT
I need to be able to simultaneously set any/all of 6 output lines on or off.
ie: 1, 3, and 6 on. 2, 4 and 5 off. then maybe just number 3, etc...
serial would involve more wizardry on the hardware side of things than I'm
comfortable attempting. As for usb, the intended host of this app doesn't
have any usb ports so...
"Michael Meissner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "The Snowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 2) I'm scrounging parts here :) therefore the fact that I have a few
old
> > printer cables and no machines with a free serial port influenced the
> > decision.
>
> If your application is better suited to 9 pin serial than parallel, and
your
> machine is fairly recent, you might want to think about USB serial devices
> (particularly keyspan).
>
> --
> Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
> PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
> Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
> Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NI GPIB on 2.4.3 kernel
Date: 10 May 2001 17:54:06 GMT
Allen K. Lair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've recently installed a National Instruments PCI-GPIB card for an
> instrumentation control project but the driver provided by National
> Instruments is exclusive to kernels <2.2.x. I am currently running
> kernel 2.4.3 (which I would prefer to keep using).
What did the INSTALL script say when you tried on the 2.4.3 box?
> Does anyone know of any workarounds to make the driver work under newer
> kernels or of any drivers available from other vendors? I've tried
> compiling the driver under 2.2.12 and doing an "insmod --force nigpib.o"
> running 2.4.3 but I get about 10 unresolved symbol errors.
Well, by the looks of things, NI hasn't updates its drivers since
version 0.6 last July. I think it's time to hassle them...
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: "Allen K. Lair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NI GPIB on 2.4.3 kernel
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:23:47 +0000
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > I've recently installed a National Instruments PCI-GPIB card for an
> > instrumentation control project but the driver provided by National
> > Instruments is exclusive to kernels <2.2.x. I am currently running
> > kernel 2.4.3 (which I would prefer to keep using).
>
> What did the INSTALL script say when you tried on the 2.4.3 box?
The INSTALL script has a conditional that kicks out of the script if the
kernel version is over 2.2.x. Faking it doesn't work since there are some
definitions that are changed/missing in the newer kernel headers. I've
contacted NI about the problem and will hopefully get an answer in a few
days...
Thanks,
Allen
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From: "Andrea [Akira] De Pirro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How Could i disable a device...
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:06:19 +0200
...in linux mandrake 8, kde 2 ?
Thanks
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From: "Andrea [Akira] De Pirro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trust ISDN
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 21:07:19 +0200
Where could i find drivers for this device for linux?
Thanks
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From: Sian Leitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Freecom Traveller PCMCIA CD-RW problem
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 11:40:50 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear All
I am using a 2.2.17 kernel on a Pentium III-based Dell Inspiron 3800
with the Debian Potato (2.2r0) distribution.
Recently, I purchased a Freecom Traveller Light CD-RW with a PCMCIA
interface. I have not been able to mount the device yet. The kernel was
compiled with SCSI emulation as a module, together with the generic SCSI
module sg.
Does anybody know exactly which commands I need to insert, and where, to
be able to mount the beast so that I can use it for CD writing? It is
recognised as /dev/hde (IDE disk drive and IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive
mounted as /dev/hda and /dev/hdc respectively).
At boot time, only the disk drive and CD-ROM drive are present. Where
should I place the hde=ide-scsi command, and how should I amend the
PCMCIA database in /etc/pcmcia/config.
Regards
--
Dr. Ing. Sian Leitch
Software Engineer specialising in Algol 68
Algol 68 for Linux is available from
<http://www.nunan.fsnet.co.uk/algol68/>
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From: robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: One more who needs help!
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 14:58:06 -0500
John Pfaff wrote:
> Most (read all) external SERIAL modems work, many external USB modems are
> Winmodems. I have a Winmodem with a Lucent chipset that does work. There
> is a Linux kernel driver for it, I think I got it at the Lucent site.
>
<snip>
Be warned that software modems (i.e. all winmodems) are much more
sensetive to line noise than real modems. This means slower connection
speeds and more frequent disconnects (in addition to sucking some CPU
cycles).
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From: "Gerard Daubar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA PCI Adapter (for wireless cards)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 19:51:52 GMT
Hello,
Right now I have the ZoomAir 2mb pcmcia cards, one for the laptop and the other
in the desktop w/ an ISA adapter. My question is, does anyone know of a
PCI adapter that will work in general w/ any brand of card? I bought a
Linksys PCMCIA to PCI adapter to find it only works with a Linksys
wireless card. So, anyone have experience w/ this?
Thanks,
Gerard
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From: Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will this system support linux?
Date: 10 May 2001 14:46:54 -0700
"Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Amptron DX-6900 AT style motherboard with 7 16-bit ISA slots.
> The processor is an Intel 486 DX-2 66Mhz CPU.
> The video card is a Diamond Stealth 32 VLB card with 2MB Video RAM.
> The main storage is a 500MB Quantum Fireball TM 1700A 3 1/2" IDE hard drive.
> BIOS doesn't see the full 1.7 gig.
> Audio is a Reveal SC200 Sound Blaster compatible ISA soundcard.
> Hitachi 8X IDE CD-ROM (model CDR-7930)
> The ISA controller card supports the IDE channel, floppy drive channel,
> Printer port and two serial ports(1/DB9 and 1/DB25).
> US Robotics Sportser 33.6 Data/Fax External Modem.
> There is 24MB of memory.
They make great DHCP and print servers. Just don't run X on them.
--
Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412
Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
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From: "t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voyetra Turtle Beach Santa Cruz driver
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:49:08 -0500
Hello
a friend of mine loved linux, but he complains about how his Santa Cruz
soundcard doesn't work. Does anybody have a driver for this that he could
use? Please save him, he's digressed to the dark side (windows 2000) and
won't come back until his sound card works.
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From: "t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Writer for Linux
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:59:49 -0500
a plextor plexwriter is a kick booty cdrw drive for linux. you just have to
reconfigure the kernel to get it to work (unless you're running mandrake 7.2
or higher [i don't know about other distros, but it didn't work in red hat
7.1, so i had to hack the kernel])
ram2500 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
>
> Charles Stevenson wrote:
>
> > Where do you go to find CD-RWs that will work with Linux? ( Intel
> > Pentium II, 233 MHz, Redhat Linux 6.2. , Purpose: system backup &
> > recovery, soley. )
> >
> > The local CompUSA & internet searches show reveal several reasonable
> > Windows-compatible choices, but none that I've seen claim that they will
> > will work with Linux.
>
> my smart & freindly works with rh 7.1
>
>
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