Linux-Hardware Digest #54, Volume #10 Sun, 18 Apr 99 01:13:34 EDT
Contents:
ISA pnp Modem HOWTO? ("Bill Gates")
Re: Why, you'll need a PCI modem someday soon was Re: Suggestions from PCI linux
modems (Johan Kullstam)
Install ethernet 2 SMC Elite 16( WD8013) with RH 5.2 (Younes Yajoud)
fdisk cannot see my ESDI drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Kernel ("Leonzo E. Miller III")
Re: fdisk cannot see my ESDI drive (Su Wadlow)
Re: Ideal Linux Box? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to edit (Coffee)
Re: Sound Blaster Live and linux
Re: Syquest SparQ 1.0GB drive (Jim McIntyre)
Re: SCSI Zip + Zoom ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
AGP i740 card ("Guillaume Serri�re")
Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPci64 (Carlo Scarfoglio)
Using IDE Tape drives ("Stephen Miller")
Redhat and Scsi Card swap... (William Reid)
Re: Writable ATAPI Cdrom, I have no hair left!!!
Re: USB and LINUX (Edward P Lee)
Waveforce 192XG YMF724 ("Aaron D. Christian")
Re: AMD K6 Slackwera Installation (Michael)
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From: "Bill Gates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISA pnp Modem HOWTO?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 02:42:24 +0200
I've got an internal Motorola ISA PNP and the system can't recognise it,
how can I configure it for LINUX?
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Subject: Re: Why, you'll need a PCI modem someday soon was Re: Suggestions from PCI
linux modems
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Apr 1999 21:02:18 -0400
Mike Battle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It may not be around yet, but we *will* need PCI modem support,
POTS modems may be obsolete soon. i am coming to you from an ethernet
card talking to a cablemodem.
> and soon, as Micro$haft is deprecating the ISA bus.
who cares about ISA buses. i am sure RS-232C will be around for a
*long* time to come.
> When you can't get a new motherboard with ISA slots, how much
> longer do you think we will be able to get ISA modems?
serial ports have been around for 30 years. i bet they'll still be
here 30 years from now.
long live blinkenlights!
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 23:38:13 +0200
From: Younes Yajoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Install ethernet 2 SMC Elite 16( WD8013) with RH 5.2
Hi I have cable modem intenet access and I want to install linux server
with this configuration:
Server Linux:
RH 5.2
Processor : Pentium 90 MHz
RAM : 40 Mo
Hard Disk SCSI : Seagate 1 Go
IDE : Conner cp 100 Mo
CDROM SCSI : Sony
Graphic adapter : ATI mach 32
SCSI adapter : Adaptec AH 2940 PCI
Network Card :2 SMC Elite 16( WD8013) i/o =280; IRQ= 3 ;
RAM=D0000
i/o=300; IRQ=10; RAM= CC000
Mouse : 3 butons ms-compatible
3 Clients working with Windows.
The probleme is my linux doen't recognise my 2 Networks Cards and my
mouse doesn't work in X.
I need help to configure this server.
Thanks for any help
ps: my english is not good, my mother tongue is french.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux.slakware
Subject: fdisk cannot see my ESDI drive
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 02:12:39 GMT
I am trying to install Slackware 3.0.0 Linux using the Aug 9, 1998 boot
disk and color root on a PS/2 55 (386 with 4MB RAM) with an ESDI hd.
I've tried a variety of things including at boot:
ramdisk eda=58,64,32
(this doesn't seem to make any difference with or without it. I got the
numbers from DOS's msd.exe)
After I boot color, login as root I try the following:
# rm /dev/hd*
# mknod /dev/hda b 36 0
# mknod /dev/hda1 b 36 1
(have tried /dev/hdb as well)
This is where I get stuck.
# fdisk /dev/hda
(always replys..)
Unable to open /dev/hda
even if I specify /dev/hda1 or whatever, fdisk cannot see my hard
drive. I have patch_fdisk-ESDI.gz and dumped it on a disk, but I am not
sure what to do with it. How do you apply a patch?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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From: "Leonzo E. Miller III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:00:53 -0400
How can U tell if you are running in parallel mode after compiling the
Kernel for it and rebooting?
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From: Su Wadlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux.slakware
Subject: Re: fdisk cannot see my ESDI drive
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:34:16 -0500
Hi,
> I am trying to install Slackware 3.0.0 Linux using the Aug 9, 1998 boot
> disk and color root on a PS/2 55 (386 with 4MB RAM) with an ESDI hd.
[snip]
> even if I specify /dev/hda1 or whatever, fdisk cannot see my hard
> drive. I have patch_fdisk-ESDI.gz and dumped it on a disk, but I am not
> sure what to do with it.
What you need right now are Chris Beauregard's Slackware MCA
installation instructions.
ftp://ftp.dgmicro.com/pub/linuxmca/Slackware/Slackware-MCA
They contain the information you need to make use of your
bootdisk, rootdisk, and the ESDI stuff. In fact, you may be
missing another piece. Get this file as well.
ftp://ftp.dgmicro.com/pub/linuxmca/Slackware/esdi_slack-09Aug1998.tar.gz
and follow the installation instructions on how to use it.
You may just want to go to the MCA Linux Homepage and look
around.
http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/
Good luck.
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Su Wadlow
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ideal Linux Box?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 02:52:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig M Lambert) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to build myself a new Linux box and wanted some feedback
> about the hardware I have selected for it.
Your selections sound fine. What hardware you should get
depends on what you intend to run on it though. If you have
any interest in 3d games like Quake2 I'd go with a Celeron
processor and a Voodoo 2 or Voodoo 3 card.
For myself, I'm sticking with my old P166mmx with a monster
1 for the time being, as nothing I run but Quake requires
anything more. My major upgrade for the year tho is dsl
service from Pacbell, which is being installed on Monday.
My thinking there is that the only real performance bottleneck
in my system is the net access, so a faster net connect should
affect everything i do dramatically.
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From: Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to edit
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:38:18 -0500
Gno Phun wrote:
> I need to edit my xf86 config file, but I don't know how. What editor do I
> use and how do I execute it?
My favorite is Pico
pico <filename>
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live and linux
Date: 18 Apr 1999 03:49:34 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware zzz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any idea to make a Sound Blaster Live work with linux ?
>From what I have heard, you want to avoid the Sound Blaster Live
because Creative are not and probably will not ever release documentation
for programming. The result is that all drivers you can ever get will
be closed source. Aside from the security issue of running code that
you cannot check or debug and giving this code kernel level priority
(implying any bug can crash your entire system and you can't even trace
back to find out why) there is the greater issue of offering money
to a group of people who are choosing not to offer you service.
Since there are so many options available that ARE supported,
is there a good reason to make life difficult for yourself?
- Tel
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Syquest SparQ 1.0GB drive
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:59:27 -0300
Hey wesa!
I'm having the same problem. IDE isn't entirely incompatible, but it
takes some work. The parport HOWTO explains the procedure, but there
are a few scripts I have to enter into some files, and I just don't know
which files.
Also, the driver can be found at
ftp://gear.torque.net/pub/paride.tar.gz .Please let me know if you have
success, I'd really like to get my Syquest working with Linux.
Jim McIntyre
wesa wrote:
> I've read that Redhat Linux v5.2 is incompatible with IDE removable
> media, including Syquest's. Does anyone know of driver for the SparQ
> 1.0GB drive for Redhat 5.2?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI Zip + Zoom
Date: 17 Apr 1999 21:35:52 GMT
Ernesto Mottola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I'm trying to install a 250 MB Zip w/ their Zip Zoom accelerator card
<snip>
> I have the same problem; look at my message "...-> Adaptec SCSI AVA1502 <-"
> before; i posted this message two times but no one has answered yet...
> If someone tells you how to solve this problem, please let me know too!
OK, I got it. Damn IRQ conflicts. The problem was that /proc/interrups
only reported IRQ's 10 and 12 as being used, by the aic7880 and
ps/2 mouse, respectively. However, a look through /proc/pci revealed
that in addition IRQ 9 was used by the Permedia 2 chip on my video
card and 11 was used by the USB controller. As these 4 are the only
values you can jumper the zoom card to, you have to change one of these
other devices.
Solution -- I went into the BIOS setup and reserved IRQ11. So, now the
USB controller is set to IRQ14 and the zoom card gets 11.
So, the summary is:
Check _both_ /proc/pci and /proc/interrupts, and find/create an open IRQ for
the aha152x card.
Compile scsi support into the kernel or as module. Put the proper options
in an append to LILO or in conf.modules, respectively.
After booting, look for your zip at the proper /dev/sd*.
Good luck!
--
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: "Guillaume Serri�re" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AGP i740 card
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 23:37:56 +0200
Hello,
like many other users, I tried to install Linux SuSE 6.0 'cause I'm fed up
with MSBug98... But X server doesn't appreciate my AGP V2740 Asus card (i740
chip), while it's in the list of supported hardware... What shall I do ?
Thanks for your answer !
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From: Carlo Scarfoglio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPci64
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 03:55:50 +0200
"Alan W. Jurgensen" wrote:
> Hi Yall,
>
> REgarding: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI Sound Card...
>
> Looks like it works in 2.2.5 Kernel using es1371....
>
> As Taken from linux/Documentation/sound/es1371:
> ...
> This driver does not support the ALaw/uLaw sample formats.
> ALaw is the default mode when opening a sound device
> using OSS/Free. The reason for the lack of support is
> that the hardware does not support these formats, and adding
> conversion routines to the kernel would lead to very ugly
> code in the presence of the mmap interface to the driver.
> And since xquake uses mmap, mmap is considered important :-)
> and no sane application uses ALaw/uLaw these days anyway.
> In short, playing a Sun .au file as follows:
>
>
To Rob:
I have too an SB PCI 64 (same chip Ensoniq 1371) and it works well with the 1371
driver under kernel 2.2.5. No /dev/sndstat, I do not know why. Not supported
anymore by the kernel ? It gives some problem with programs looking for it, so I
had to patch the programs. It has no HW MIDI support: MIDI emulation must be done
in SW by apps, such as timidity. By the way, my card picks up noise in the form
of static when playing .wav and .mp3 files at mid to high levels. I think it is
the ripple in the power supply DC lines. Do you know of ways to filter it out
(with passive elements, such as capacitors, etc.) cheaply? I noticed you are
studying electrical engineering...
This is card is highly rated at www.pcavtech.com.
Thanks
Carlo Scarfoglio - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Stephen Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using IDE Tape drives
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 22:54:02 -0500
All,
Are there any sites or documentation on using IDE tape drives with
Linux? I've installed a Sony tape drive in a dual boot Win95/Linux
system(still need some Win95 programs), and can't quite seem to get the tape
working with Linux. Works like it is supposed to with Win95. Any help would
be most appreciated.
TIA
Stephen Miller
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From: William Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Redhat and Scsi Card swap...
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:11:16 GMT
Hi I currently use a 486dx2-66 box with an older 1520 which only
supports drives under 2 gig (safely) running redhat 5.2. The drive
running off the 1520 controller is a 540m scsi drive. I recently
acquired a 1542 and and attempting to install it into the the 486
machine to replace the 1520, I also have a 9 gig scsi drive I wish to
add.
My questions is, what is the safest way to switch the driver in linux to
use the 1542? and from there, how hard is it to add the 9gig?
Thanks
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Writable ATAPI Cdrom, I have no hair left!!!
Date: 18 Apr 1999 04:10:07 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Mitch on linus1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How can I tell which kernels are stable and which are development grade,
> should I consider the "latest" in a class to be ok. Is there a list
> somewhere ?
> I will look try 2.0.36 and report back.
> ... Many thanks
> Mitch
I got this working in an afternoon with a Yamaha ATAPI CDROM burner,
you just have to remember that all CDROMs become SCSI devices after
you start using the ide-scsi emulation.
I use kernel 2.2.2 and I would suggest that you use something inthe
2.2.x line of kernels rather than struggle further with the 2.0.x line.
I followed the same instructions as below.
- Tel
> Thomas Zajic wrote:
> > Mitch on linus1 wrote:
> > > Ok,
> > > I've FAQ-ed and I've Hack-ed til I am bald from
> > > pulling my hair out.
> > > I have an HP-7200i Cdrom writer. I have been trying to
> > > get Cdrecord or Xcdroast up, but I can't get ide-scsi
> > > emulation to work. Whe my kernel boots it sees it as
> > > exactly what it is and calls it hdd. If I set that option
> > > when configuring a kernel (2.1.80 and 2.1.99), the
> >
> > These are rather old and outdated development kernels. You
> > might want to consider downgrading to 2.0.36 or upgrading to
> > 2.2.3 (although I�ve read about a lot of problems with CD
> > writing on 2.2.3 already).
> >
> > > "make" barfs in the ide section complaining:
> > > ---------snip -------
> > > drivers/block/block.a(ide.o): In function
> > > `ide_init_builtin_drivers':
> > > ide.o(.text.init+0x5e1): undefined reference to
> > > `idescsi_init'
> > > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> > > ---------snip----------
> >
> > Make sure you DISable ATAPI CD-ROM support and ENable
> > ATAPI-SCSI host emulation (both in the IDE section),
> > and ENable SCSI CD-ROM support and SCSI generic support
> > (both in the SCSI section) - and don�t forget to �make
> > clean; make dep� after a failed kernel compilation!
> >
> > > After I apply the patches included in the doc file
> > > readme.ATAPI (that comes with both "cdrecord-1.6.x &
> > > Xcdroast) it gets alot worse (the patches succeed). (Are
> > > those patches version specific ??)
> >
> > Depends. If the patch changes something that has changed
> > from one version to another, then yes. Otherwise no. BTW
> > the patches aren�t necessary for versions > 2.0.34, IIRC.
> >
> > > I GOTTA be missing something, (maybe I shoulda bought a
> > > SCSI CD-burner!)
> >
> > Nah, works fine - at least for me. :-)
> >
> > Thomas
> > --
> > =---------------------------------------------------------------------=
> > - Thomas Zajic aka ZlatkO ThE GoDFatheR, Vienna/Austria -
> > - Spam-proof e-mail: thomas(DOT)zajic(AT)teleweb(DOT)at -
> > =---------------------------------------------------------------------=
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From: Edward P Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB and LINUX
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:30:20 -0700
I guess you have one of those AT MBs, since most ATX MBs come with USB connectors on
board. Most
AT MBs and cases don't have room for the USB connectors. I have seem the connector
and bracket
you need for US$ 10 at Fry's Electronics in San Diego. But i ended up buying an ATX
MB (US $25)
and case for some other reasons.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have one question of my own though...
>
> I have the USB controller on my motherboard and I have the USB drivers
> retrofitted into the kernel and the driver module will load and will
> tell me that everything is OK. I also have a USB mouse that I would like
> to try but the USB mouse has a standard 4 pin USB connector and the
> motherboard has a largish pin header that is nothing like the USB connector.
>
> The motherboard docco says that the pin header contains two USB connections
> within it but no adapter came with the motherboard and no one that I have
> asked has any adapter that would be suitable. What I need is something that
> will fill an empty slot on the edge of the PC box with a pair of USB
> connectors and connect internally to the pin header on the motherboard.
>
> I could even make one up myself if I could get panel-mountable USB connectors
> but I have no idea where to get them from. It seems like USB is taking a
> long time to soak into the Australian marketplace...
>
> OK, the list of USB driver mirrors:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The project's web is located at these URLs:
>
> [U = URL, M = maintainer, P = mirroring period, L = location]
>
> U: http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/uusbd-www
> M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> P: master
> L: Spain/RUNET
>
> U: http://club.idecnet.com/~pegon/uusbd-www
> M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> P: daily, at 02:00 CET
> L: Spain/IdecNet
>
> U: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ia_ric/USB
> M: Ric Klaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> P: unknown
> L: The Netherlands
>
> U: http://www.bcinternet.com/~inaky/USB
> M: Mike Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> P: daily, at 03:00 EST
> L: Canada
>
> U: http://darwin.igeofcu.unam.mx/USB
> M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> P: daily
> L: Mexico
>
> U: http://nv.org/linux/USB
> M: Steven Byrnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> P: unknown
> L: Houston and Maryland, USA
>
> U: http://electricrain.com/Linux/USB
> M: Gregory P. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> P: daily, at 01:42 PST
> L: Mountain View, California USA
>
> U:
>http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/mirrors/peloncho.fis.ucm.es/%257Einaky/uusbd-www
> M: Markus Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> P: daily, at 00:00 CET
> L: Vienna, Austria
>
> Thanks to all the people who provided mirror space!
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> - Tel
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From: "Aaron D. Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Waveforce 192XG YMF724
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 17:25:19 -0500
I have a Yamaha Waveforce 192XG PCI sound card and am trying to get it
to work under my install of Linux. Is there anybody out there who knows
how to get it to work?
I know that there is not kernel support yet for the YMF724 PCI chipset.
I have also tryed OSS-Linux from 4Front Technologies because they claim
to have YMF724 compatibility with their product.
If anyone can help me with this problem, please respond here and also
mail a copy to my email address.
Thank you.
Aaron Christian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gamma Xi Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael)
Subject: Re: AMD K6 Slackwera Installation
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 04:26:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:40:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
wrote:
>It was: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:44:51 GMT and with STARTLING insight,
>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(Michael)" posted "AMD K6 Slackwera Installation" to "comp.os.linux.hardware" :
>
>-->Hi:
>-->
>-->I have an INTEVA Pentium computer with AMD K6/200 processor,
>-->Award Plug and Play BIOS. The board is M5ATA Pentium Super with PCI
>-->and IDE bus. I have IDE hard drives (2.1 and 6.4 G), IDE CDROM,
>-->parallel port ZIP, HP printer.
>-->
>-->I tried to install Slackware 3.6 but half way through installing the
>-->ramdisk, the computer reboots. I have tired all the boot disks that
>-->were logocal. I have also tried booting from the CDROm (no luck), I
>-->have tied running the live system and the live from Zip. None work.
>-->
>-->From the Newsgroups mesages, I understand this not my particular
>-->problem (I am not a novice), but that it hapens to many people. I have
>-->not seen it before or its solution.
>-->
>-->If it is a problem of the BIOS, can I disable the BIOS? Can I change
>-->it?
>-->
>-->If it not a problem of the BIOS, what can I do?
>-->
>-->I would apprecite any suggestion. I am working with Linux in a NexGen
>-->90 Mhz without co-processor while the Pentium is runing Windows 95.
>-->
>-->Thanks in advance.
>-->
>-->Mike
>Sounds like a problem with ram: can you swap out the computer's ram or take it and
>have it
>tested? Are there any device conflicts with current settings? G'luck, /ts
>
> tenox @ home dat com
> /ts
Thanks, Tenox, but I do not think it can be memory. My reson is that
the computer is working very heavily with Windows 95. I work mostly in
graphics, with five or six programs working simultaneously. If there
was a memory chip that is bad, it will show.
I do not think that there is memory that works for Windows and not for
Linux.
I think to remember some problem with the K6 but I cannot put my hand
on it.
Thanks any way
Mike
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