Linux-Hardware Digest #35, Volume #9 Sun, 27 Dec 98 14:13:43 EST
Contents:
Zip drive manufactured by NEC (root)
Re:Dual channel SCSI card for Linux? (Tim Smith)
Re: Linux on Sparc - ROM Rev. 1.6c (Frank Hahn)
Sony Vaio PCG-818, PCMCIA not working (Weimin Zhao)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (Bruce Thornhill)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: (Q) Tape Drive and so on... (Shu)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (Rob Clark)
Re: SupraExpress 56i in Linux (Rob Clark)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (David Fox)
PCI soundcard ? HOW ? (Kris \"Duke\" Vandecruys)
Re: SupraExpress 56i in Linux ("Daniel Lindberg")
Re: Diamond Fireport not found on boot (Filip M. Gieszczykiewicz)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (David M. Cook)
Re: adaptec AHA-150X/1510/132X AIX-CX60SCI (Tilman Kranz)
Re: modem quit working after RH 5.2 install (Peter Mergaerts)
Re: low cost print server (Frank Hahn)
PCMCIA modem: ActionTec DataLink (Neil Zanella)
Re: What is the very best motherboard (Bob Lawson)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (Rob Clark)
Re: Moodems that will transmit at 56k? (Bernd Harries)
Re: When will kernel 2.2 be released? (Filip M. Gieszczykiewicz)
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zip drive manufactured by NEC
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:33:33 -0500
Hi,
has anybody tried to use the internal ATAPI zip 100 drive manufactured
by NEC (Win95 says that firmware revision is 13B)? It is detected by
linux, but it is not possible to mount a partition. If I look at the
partition table using linux fdisk, it seems to be completely corrupt.
Using other drives I can mount all my disks correctly. Any ideas ?
G. Jablonski
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From: Tim Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re:Dual channel SCSI card for Linux?
Date: 27 Dec 1998 13:35:51 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Ben Goble, Lakewood Colorado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>I an trying to find a dual channel wide SCSI controller
>that will work with Linux. I purchased a Mylex (BusLogic)
>KT-952 but have had no end of problems with it.[CHOP]
Linux runs well on my Adaptec AHA-3940 dual channel board...
it's not a wide board, but I suspect that this means that the
3940UW dual channel wide SCSI card ought to work...
-Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Linux on Sparc - ROM Rev. 1.6c
Date: 27 Dec 1998 13:23:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 08:01:35 GMT, client.ne.news.psi.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>My installation of RrdHat Linux 5.2 fails when I try to boot it from a
>floppy. It aborts the boot with: "IDPROM: Unknown format type!". I have
>ROM Revision 1.6c on Sparc 1+ clone and I suspect that is the problem. Does
>anybody know more about this and how I can upgrade the rom in my Sparc 1+?
>
Before you get to carried away trying to change anything on your
Sun, go to Redhats web site and do some looking around. I don't
know how old your Redhat CD is but I have read in some other newsgroups
that Redhat used the wrong kernel when burning some V5.1 of the Sparc
Linux CD's. I don't know if this applies to your problem or not but it
might be a good first place to look.
Also, there were a couple of articles in the August and September
1998 Sunworld magazines about installing Sparc Linux. The address
is:
http://www.sunworld.com
--
Frank Hahn
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From: Weimin Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sony Vaio PCG-818, PCMCIA not working
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 08:42:14 -0500
Hi there,
Does anyone have any luck with the Sony Vaio PCG-818's PCMCIA? The
CardBus controller is a Ricoh RL/RB5C478.
I'm running RH5.2, linux-2.0.36, pcmcia-cs-3.0.5.
I have a Xircom CE3, 10/100 nic in slot 0. The /var/log/messages says "
Intel PCIC probe: not found..., cardmgr: no sockets found! exiting"
Any help is greatly appreciated!!!
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From: Bruce Thornhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 10:21:56 -0400
In article <7639k2$g76$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>Based on this limited observation, it appears that (a) it has been only
>in the last couple of months that Winmodems have become common (is this
>true?) and (b) Winmodems now dominate the PC modem market.
No, winmodems have been around for quite a while now, and I would think
their marketshare is sliding dramatically. Many people now realize that
they are lobotomized modems that rely on the PC's hardware to do much of
their logic processing. AFAIK, they work ONLY on Win9x machines. The
direct-hardware software drivers violate NT architecture so they won't
even work there.
--
Bruce Thornhill Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.accesscable.net/~bthornhill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:34:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (erikc) wrote:
> On 26 Dec 1998 18:24:02 GMT
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norm Matloff) wrote:
> -- origin: comp.os.linux.advocacy:
> Winmodems are getting popular because they are *cheap* internal units
> which use a DSP to perform the actual modem functions and the system
> CPU to manage the protocols. Home PC's are a price-sensitive market,
> and it is to this market that winmodems are addressed.
Actually it's a little more complicated. Intel is pushing hard for
offloading processing onto the software rather than having it done by
specialized hardware. This means going towards WinModems, AGP graphics, MPEG
software, DVD player software and away from ISA modems, PCI graphics, MPEG
decoder cards, and DVD-ROM cards. They want the software to do the
processing which will require faster main CPUs rather than have specialized
chips each performing a single task well. You see, there's no reason right
now that the average home PC user needs a 450 mhz+, 128 meg RAM PC. Having
the processing done by software rather than dedicated hardware creates a
demand for faster Intel CPUs. Unfortunately this is a short sighted strategy
that will hold back interesting new technologies which really will require
faster CPUs as the CPUs will be bogged down running things that used to be
done in hardware.
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From: Shu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (Q) Tape Drive and so on...
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 00:13:50 +0900
Hi Gary,
Thanks for your info.
I am checking that info..
When I have some questions, I will be asking here again.
Thank you again for your help.
Regards,
Shu
Gary Momarison wrote:
>
> Shu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am looking for Data Management on Linux with backups/Archive.
> > So do you have any experiences to use Tape Drive for backup/archive
> > solution on Linux with Databases?
> > If possible, please advise your cases.
> > For the saving time of Backing up, I would like to use the faster
> > transfer rate Tape Drives.
> >
> > I will try to use Oracle8 Beta and/or Sybase.
> > If you have any experiences about other application with Tape Drive,
> > let me know for my information, please.
>
> Check out the backup page of Gary's Encyclopedia at
>
> http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/backup.html
>
> Sounds like you want one of the commercial offerings.
> The Spectra Logic one explicitly mentions RDBMS backup.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:06:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bruce Thornhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>No, winmodems have been around for quite a while now, and I would think
>their marketshare is sliding dramatically. Many people now realize that
I wonder if marketshare is really declining. I've been following the FCC
filings lately, and the recent activity seems to tend toward 56K PCI
modems based on controllerless or "software modem" chipsets.
Suppose you were among the average, run-of-the-mill Windows user, i.e.
some large percentage of the consumer market. If you go to:
http://www.shopper.com/idx/COMMUNICATIONS_HARDWARE/
MODEMS__FAXES__MODEM_NIC_COMBOS___ACCESSORIES/INTERNAL_DATA_FAX/
you'll see the USR 5683-01 (Winmodem) for $71
and the USR 5687-02 (Hardware) for $99
For a Windoze user, that's a no-brainer (literally ;)) It's not only
cheaper, but it says "designed for Windows." So, I don't think they are
going away; in fact, I believe that meeting the price point is forcing
retail modem manufacturers to go to these cheaper chipsets, e.g. Hayes
selling the Digitan under their badge. I also believe that cost cutting
is driving OEMs to these same modems, e.g. Gateway, Compaq.
>they are lobotomized modems that rely on the PC's hardware to do much of
>their logic processing. AFAIK, they work ONLY on Win9x machines. The
>direct-hardware software drivers violate NT architecture so they won't
>even work there.
They must have worked this out, e.g.
http://www.cpinternational.com/Shop/viva56lc-v.html
http://www.zoltrix.com/modem.htm#FMHSP56PCI
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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Subject: Re: SupraExpress 56i in Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:38:29 GMT
In article <765iq0$r22$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel Lindberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone who knows how the hell you make one of
>those internal PCI SupraExpress modem work in
>Linux?
Got a model number? There are two major versions of the 56K PCI
SupraExpress that I know of; neither is advertised on the US website.
The 56i PRO is definitely a Windows Modem and will not work with Linux.
For the other version, I can find no useful information, but it is
probably also a "Winmodem."
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Date: 27 Dec 1998 08:27:18 -0800
I think the most important step we could take would be to register the
domain "winmodem.org" and set up a website that would explain the
problem, exhort people to contact the manufacturer and complain or ask
for Linux drivers, and most importantly to give detailed information
about exactly which modems are real and which are not and what are the
most suitable low-cost replacements for a winmodem.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Kris \"Duke\" Vandecruys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI soundcard ? HOW ?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:41:08 +0100
hi,
i have a yamaha 64bits soundcard wit h a PCI slot
how do i make linux detect it ?
thnx
duke
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From: "Daniel Lindberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SupraExpress 56i in Linux
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:53:38 +0100
The manual says PRO so I guess it's a PRO then :(
Diamond says that it should be possible to use
all their internal modems in Linux, at least in the future.
regards
========
Daniel Lindberg
"May The Corrs be with you, always"
================
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
========================
The Corrs Swedish Website
http://www.corrsweden.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Filip M. Gieszczykiewicz)
Subject: Re: Diamond Fireport not found on boot
Date: 27 Dec 1998 17:39:57 GMT
In Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, through puissant locution, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
soliloquized:
>I am running slackware 3.6 with a Quantum scsi harddrive and toshiba
>cdrom. The hard drive is ID 0 with the cdrom at ID 2.
>The problem is that on bootup, my Diamond Fireport 40 is not found
>when I compile a custom kernel. I am using the 2.0.36 sources.
>I was able to install slackware using a bootdisk and an confused why
>my custom kernel is not working. When I looked at the directory
>structure during compile process, I saw that the
>/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi directory had a ncr53c7,8xx.o but not an
>53c8xx.o. I do not know if that will help. My only thought is that
>the kernel is compiling without support for the fireport card, but I
>do not now how to make it suport it.
Disable the 53c7,8xx support and enable the 53c8xx driver. For some
reason, my 2.0.36 kernel will reliably fail loading the former module
with an odd error yet load the later fine. Getting a SCA Viking to
behave, now there's something I can't help a 5 year old with... $%^#!
--
Filip "I'll buy a vowel" Gieszczykiewicz | http://www.repairfaq.org/
Always and everything for the better!
Now exploring whatever, life, and the meaning of it all... and 'not' :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:40:14 GMT
Does anyone know if winmodems will work with NT5? If they won't work with
Win2000 then it seems to me their days are numbered.
Dave Cook
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From: Tilman Kranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adaptec AHA-150X/1510/132X AIX-CX60SCI
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:46:01 +0100
lawrence C wrote:
> I have a adaptec ISA 150X SCSI
hi, i've got the same problem. I have a 1502 e. the manual says that
it's set as a default to an I/O adress of 140 but also supports 340.
possible values for the IRQ are within 9-12, default is 10. 10/340
worked fine with a scanner and w95. i just want to use that scanner with
linux now (no extra drives or whatever).
only drivers for >=AHA-152X come with my distribution wich is RH5.2.
adaptec homepage offers no solutions, nor do some of the driver sites i
visited.
where do i get (if at all possible) a proper driver and how do I set it
up?
bye, Tilman.
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From: Peter Mergaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem quit working after RH 5.2 install
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 17:18:30 +0100
Jim Snyder wrote:
> I don't know if this is coincidence but my 56K modem (generic Rockwell
> chip) just quit working several days after installing RH 5.2. It had
> been previously working with Windows 98 and RH 5.1 Linux for about 5
> months.
>
> Has anyone else had his problem?
I had exactly the same problem (Diamond SupraExpress 56e). It started
after I tried to setup my Ensonique soundcard with sndconfig. After that
the modem died. Wel not actually died, but the response to an ATZ too
more then 30 seconds.
I deleted the isapnp.conf file (no sound) and removed the sound lines
from the conf.modules file and everything ran just fine as before.
My sound card doesn't worked and still doesn't but the modem works.
Kind regards,
Peter Mergaerts
Werchter, Belgium
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: low cost print server
Date: 27 Dec 1998 17:52:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:43:45 -0800, Al Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have 4 PCs in my little home network. I'd like to add a print server
>so I can print to my old HP LJIIIp from any of the machines. 2 of the
>machines are Linux, 1 OS/2, and one Win95.
>
>I've been told to get one that does TCPIP. Is that all I need to worry
>about? Will I have protocol trouble with some print servers and not
>others? If one says it works with Unix, can I be sure it will be ok
>with Linux?
>
Printing to the printer from either Linux or Windows 95 if it is connected
to either the Linux or Windows 95 machines is not a problem. Just install
Samba on the Linux machines. It should then be easy to print either way.
I have no experience with OS/2. If it can print to remote printers, it
should be easy to get going.
Obviously, hooking your printer up to the parallel port to one of your
computers is cheaper than buying a print server. We purchased an external
HP three-port unit this past summer at work for about US $350.00.
At home I have a three computer network. One a Sun Sparc running Solaris,
a 486 running Linux, and a Pentium running Windows 95. I have an Epson
Stylus 500 connected to the Linux machine and an HP 4L connected to the
Windows 95 machine. I can print from all machine to all printers. I have
installed Samba on the Sun and the Linux machines. There were a couple
of scripts included with the Samba source that made it fairly easy.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA modem: ActionTec DataLink
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 14:12:54 -0330
Hello,
I am thinking about purchasing the following modem.
I want to use it with Linux of course, and the Hardware HOWTO
looks promising, but I thought I'd double check on this newsgroup
to see if anyone out there tried this particular modem and had good/bad
experiences with it under Linux. If you have used this modem with Linux
then please tell me anout it: I'll be glad to hear from you.
Here are the specs from the box:
brand: ActionTec DataLink 56K PC Card Fax Modem
features: V.90 standard, K56flex, PnP
supports: DOS, Win3.1x, Win95, Win98, NT4.0 and up
Since it says "Fax Modem" I am suuming it's not a Winmodem (nowhere on
the box does it mentioned winmodem though no Linux, Unix, OS/2, Novell,
etc... compatibility is mentioned.
Finally, the box does not tell me if the fax capabilities make the modem
act as a type 1, 2, or 2.0 data fax modem.
Finally, I'd like to know how I can tell if it uses a Type I or Type II
slot. If it's a Type III card then I will not be able to use it at all.
Thanks in advance,
Any recommendations are very welcome,
Best Regards,
Neil
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From: Bob Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is the very best motherboard
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:24:04 +0000
Andri Saar wrote:
> Command wrote:
> >
> > Can any one give me opinions on the "Very Best Motherboard/CPU" on the
> > market?
> > I m looking to build my linux box very slow, but with the best hardware.
> > It is going to be a work in progress from a PC the best Linux server I can
> > afford.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> ASUS P2B / Chaintech 6BTM + Intel Pentium II 450MHz :)
Mine is : FIC VA-503+ Motherboard with K6-2 350MHz CPU Very stable and
fast!!
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:37:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Fox <d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u> wrote:
>I think the most important step we could take would be to register the
>domain "winmodem.org" and set up a website that would explain the
Well, there's already www.winmodems.org (with an "s"), so you're halfway
there.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <-- Linux compatibility list
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From: Bernd Harries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moodems that will transmit at 56k?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:52:14 +0100
Dae wrote:
> Anyone know what kind of modems that ISPs are using that transmit at
> 56K?
No. They don't use Modems at all. They use ISDN access routers which
emulate Modems if a V.xx modem dials in or render special waveforms if
56k modems dial in. They have e.g. 30 lines at once. Check out Ascend,
Cisco or 3com.
In any case they output 8000 octetts/sec a 8 bits of info. This can
either be a value my ISDN adapter receives or an amplitude
representation for an D/A converter close to you.
Technically 56k modems are detours. Like feeding a video signal into a
TV via the antenna connector: Artificial deformation of good signals.
On a simple twisted 2 wire line ISDN transfers 144 KBIT of data in each
direction netto. Plus sync overhead etc! ADSL makes even much more out
of the same primitive cable and the asymetry makes very much sense.
> Whatz the diff from the modems we can buy and the ones they get?
You can buy an ISDN card, the Hagenuk Speed Dragon, ACER T30..T50,
Fritz!xPC, Elsa, Motorola, Zyxel and many other ISDN data Adapters.
You can also buy bigger ISDN routers.
> Seems that alot of ISPs use the same
> modems that we the public buy, but when you look at the specs it says'
> receive at 56k but send max is 33.6k.
> Why is that, what are they using
> that will allow them you send at 56k?
They do send 64000 bits/sec! 56k is the absolute theoretical maximum
that arrives at you. 44 or 46 k is more realistic.
If I watch kpppload during a connect my transferred amount of data is
1/10 to 1/100 of my RX ammount. I simply don't have so much to say. Only
small ACK packets and requests leave my place, 2400 baud would by far be
enough for that. And I have Euro ISDN. So 98% of my 64000 bit/s TX
channel are unused. :-(
Want to rent it for DM 2,- per month? ;-))
--
Bernd Harries
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.freeyellow.com/members/bharries
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. +49 421 809 7351 priv. | MSB First!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 421 457 3966 offi. | Linux-m68k
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Filip M. Gieszczykiewicz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: When will kernel 2.2 be released?
Date: 27 Dec 1998 17:43:24 GMT
In Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, through puissant locution,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry McGregor) soliloquized:
>Last I heard it the 2.1.xx kernels were up the M$ quality (about
>125), and are not quite up to linux quality. If you need things that
Huh? My .96pl2 was up about M$ quality.... ;)
(what scares the crap out of me is the Navy moving their fleet from
[stable] unix systems to NT... [shivvvvvver])
--
Filip "I'll buy a vowel" Gieszczykiewicz | http://www.repairfaq.org/
Always and everything for the better!
Now exploring whatever, life, and the meaning of it all... and 'not' :-)
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