Linux-Hardware Digest #455, Volume #10 Thu, 10 Jun 99 03:14:01 EDT
Contents:
Help: Dell vs. Cumetrix - Trying to decide on computer for Linux ("A. Nonymous")
Re: Sparc: possible to install linux from tape ? (C. Newport)
Re: Xeon processor (Darren Greer)
Re: Linuxconf not working in X? (Kiran Maheriya)
Network Card Says 'Device Busy' (Mike)
Re: repost: can 2 linux machines talk to a dual port scsi raid system ?? (Frank
Sweetser)
Re: good motherboard for K6-2 450 and 350 (Mike Frisch)
xdm & screen saver (Y Chen)
Re: Linux Laptop sugesstions ("Laser Henry")
Re: Six Rack AS/400 ("Kent Rankin")
Re: xdm & screen saver (Remco van den Berg)
Re: Epson Stylus Color 600 Config Problems ("Peter Christy")
Re: problem about aic7xxx (Skaya)
Re: Celeron or PII? (Dave Edick)
Re: 28 SCSI drives ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
FAT32 ("Cyberant")
Re: Recommended SCSI scananer? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Question installing SCSI drivers for initio (Sonu Sahi)
Re: ***** HELP PLEASE Linux RH5.1 won't boot (Henrik Carlqvist)
bttv w/ Diamond 2001TV? (Shaun Noonan)
Where can I find the driver of Cabletron E22xx(network card)? (Kanako Kanda)
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From: "A. Nonymous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Dell vs. Cumetrix - Trying to decide on computer for Linux
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 11:59:21 -0500
Hi,
I need to buy a computer for home use and to run Linux. I first looked
at DELL as I have used DELL computers at work and have been satisfied
with their hardware and service. But for home use they are somewhat
expensive for me.
I had decided on a DELL configuration (details below) and was about to
place an order when I read an Infoworld article about CUMETRIX on the
web.
What is particularly exciting is that they are going for Redhat
certification which
means if certified,I can be confident that Linux (or at least the
RedHat) distribution can run on those machines.
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?99068.picumetrix.htm
Building a Cumetrix system (details below) similar to the one I had
decided on with Dell, I save up to about $600 which is a lot. I am
trying to decide pros and cons of these alternatives. My questions:
* Has anyone bought from Cumetrix?
If yes,
* What do you know/think about Cumetrix customer service?
* What do you know/think about Cumetrix hardware?
* What is it about DELL that would justify its higher cost? Quality?
Service?
Any advice that would help be decide would be greatly appreciated. The
details for the two systems are given below:
DELL DIMENSION V Series:
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Intel Celeron. processor, 400MHz MiniTower with
128KB L2 Cache
128MB SDRAM
QuietKey. Keyboard
17" (16.0" viewable, .26dp) 1000HS Trinitron.
ATI 8MB 3D AGP Graphics
13.6GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM)
1.44MB Floppy Drive
Logitech First Mouse+ Wheel (PS/2v)
40X Max Variable CD-ROM Drive
Yamaha XG 64V Wavetable Sound
Altec Lansing ACS-340 Speakers with Subwoofer
Microsoft. Windows. 98
Microsoft. Works Suite 99 with Money 99
McAfee VirusScan 4.02
3-Yr Limited Warranty, 1-Yr Next Bus. Day On-Site Service
(I don't really need Windows98. Price includes hardware modem)
Price: Approx. $1625 including shipping/handling but does not
include taxes
CUMETRIX
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Mother Board for Intel Celeron 370 Processor, Mid Tower Case,
1.44 Teac
40X Cd Rom
Intel Celeron 400, 128k
IDE 13GB Hard Drive
Win 98 Keyboard
128MB PC-100 DIMM
Logitek Mouse
56K PCI V.90 Fax Modem
Sceptre 17 inch Monitor
32 Bit PCI Sound Card
Subwoofer Speaker System
ATI Xpert 98 8MB AGP Video Card
One year On-Site Service
Configured Price: $1085 including shipping/handling. does not
include taxes
What do you think? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C. Newport)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Sparc: possible to install linux from tape ?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 20:33:04 +0100
Frank Mattes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi all,
: I never had contact with linux, but thinking to install
: linux on my sun sparc classic.
: The machine has at the moment no access to the internet,
: but I'm wondering if its possible to install either redhat or
: debian from a dat tape.
: Is it possible to write the tape with a other machine (hp-ux)
: which than can be used to load linux (booting).
Possible with a lot of effort, but why not do it the easy way.
Plug both computers into a network, mount the linux CD on the HP box,
and do a network install using ftp or nfs.
You will need to either create a boot floppy or fix up the HP box as
a boot server.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Greer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Xeon processor
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 16:24:50 GMT
I am running Debian Gnu/Linux on a Dual PIII Xeon 500Mhz with 1M
L2-cache on each processor. No problems to report,
Darren
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 15:34:30 +0200, Jes Broeng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-->I am just about to order a dual Pentium III 550MHz Xeon
-->512kb L2-cache system, with a Intel Marlin Spike motherboard.
-->-Does anyone have any experience with a similar system?
-->Any advice would be most appreciated?
-->
-->Jes Broeng
-->
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From: Kiran Maheriya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linuxconf not working in X?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 22:14:01 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I also had similar problem.
In my case, when I typed linuxconf in an xterm (I assume you did this), it
always showed the TTY display inside the xterm.
I had changed my machine name from localhost to something else. This
caused problem with my DISPLAY settings. When I corrected the
DISPLAY setting, the problem was solved.
kiran
Help?? wrote:
> Has anyone had this problem?
>
> I am new to Linux, but do some Unix (although not much admin).
>
> In the X windows system (logged in as root), I try to use the X-based
> Linuxconf, but nothing happens.
>
> I am using Red Hat 5.2 release.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike)
Subject: Network Card Says 'Device Busy'
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 03:47:11 GMT
I'm having trouble getting my SMC 9432 NIC installed....... I'm
getting a Device is Busy Delaying initialization' error with RedHat
5.2.......
Any help would be appreciated.
Mike
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: repost: can 2 linux machines talk to a dual port scsi raid system ??
Date: 09 Jun 1999 23:22:18 -0400
dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i have a dual port scsi raid system with 2 linux systems connected to it
look for GFS on freshmeat.net
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
I figure if i can't make a difference, I can at least make a mess!
- joeski
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: good motherboard for K6-2 450 and 350
Date: 9 Jun 1999 23:06:59 GMT
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:46:25 -0400, Matt Goheen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>This is a very good point that isn't covered very well by the docs. If you run a
>K6-2/350 (100MHz
What isn't well covered? A 100MHz FSB means PC100 memory. Period.
There are some exceptions in boards that will run the memory bus at the
AGP clock speed (or a multiplier of) instead of the full PC100, but
anybody who doesn't populate with PC100 memory now is wasting money (PC100
memory is now cheaper than PC66).
Mike.
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Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Y Chen)
Subject: xdm & screen saver
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:23:27 -0400
Hello, everyone,
After I start up. login as root and start xdm.
Everything seems work out. Except I must look
at the stupid xdm login screen all the time.
Is there a screen saver availble for xdm ?
All I want is after about 20 minutes I did not
touch it, It at least blank screen to save
my old monitor. Oh, I do not have a plug and play
monitor.
Help, any advice will be appreciated!
YC
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From: "Laser Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Laptop sugesstions
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:19:05 +0800
I'm using IBM now and it work fine.
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From: "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: Re: Six Rack AS/400
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 05:10:24 GMT
>I'm sure I don't have the space requirements for the machine, but it does
>sound interesting, I'm sure others think so too, do you have a place to
post
>the pictures so we can all get a look at it.
I do... let me go and get my photos developed and I'll put them up on my
page for a while. The page is at:
http://www.public.usit.net/~srao/
Thanks,
Kent Rankin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco van den Berg)
Subject: Re: xdm & screen saver
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 19:36:06 GMT
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:23:27 -0400, Y Chen wrote:
>Hello, everyone,
>After I start up. login as root and start xdm.
>Everything seems work out.
Why don't you edit the file /etc/inittab to let your computer boot into
the right mode? (see man inittab)
>Except I must look
>at the stupid xdm login screen all the time.
>Is there a screen saver availble for xdm ?
Not especially for xdm, but there is for X :-)
Just run your screensaver from the file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 :
#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: Xsetup_0,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:31 gildea Exp $
xsetroot -solid steelblue4
xset +dpms
xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail
>All I want is after about 20 minutes I did not
>touch it, It at least blank screen to save
>my old monitor. Oh, I do not have a plug and play
>monitor.
Have a look at the xset command. (See also example above.)
>Help, any advice will be appreciated!
>YC
Good luck,
--
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Remco van den Berg Admin DSE http://www.dse.nl/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Certified Systems Engineer :-)
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From: "Peter Christy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 600 Config Problems
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:48:58 +0100
Hmmm! I'm using SuSE 6.0, and the apsfilter setup has an entry called
stcolor (Stylus Colour). All I did was select that and assign it to lp0, and
my Stylus 600 prints from Star Office just fine.
I'm not sure if apsfilter is a SuSE thing or generic Linux, but it seems to
be the bit if software that converts post-script files into something a
normal printer can handle.
Hope this points you in the right direction.....!
Pete
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From: Skaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem about aic7xxx
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 15:13:35 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > I'm trying to install Linux(TurboLinux 3.0.2) to an old HP net server
> > equipped with aic7770 SCSI card on board and 4 SCSI hds, but after the
> > installation is done, I can not boot from hd but got a error message
> > as below:
> > Kernel Panic - Unable to Mount Root FS...
> > I try to generate a boot disk from cdrom:/images/sysboot.img and try
> > to boot from floppy, it works this time, and everything work very well
> > then. But I do want to boot from hd directly, so would anybody give me
> > some suggestion for that?
> It seems like your installed kernel haven't got a driver for your SCSI
> card (driver as module is not sufficient). -> no driver -> no harddisk
> -> no root fs.
could it also be that when you try to boot from hard disk, the root
device
is not correctly specified? Check if your kernel detects SCSI stuff
(easy -
you should spot "scsi : 1 detected total" or something like that - can't
remember), and if it does, check the boot parameters (with loadlin, it's
something like "loadlin zimage root=/dev/sda5", with lilo, it's just the
root=/dev/sda5 part appended at boot).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Edick)
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 05:26:25 GMT
I agree that you can't beat the deal you get from overclocking a Cel 300a
to 450MHz. But overclocking doesn't always work and not everyone WANTS
to overclock. Any overclocked system is less stable than a non-overclocked
one. And many people will buy pre-built systems that won't necessarily
be overclock compatible.
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 16:00:14 GMT, bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dave Edick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Closer, but not quite.
>
>: The Celeron L2 cache does run at CPU speed, but the P2 L2 cache runs at 1/2
>: CPU speed, not bus speed. That difference pretty well neutralizes any
>: advantage of the P2's larger cache.
>
>: A significant item not mentioned so far is bus speed. Non-overclocked
>: Celerons all run the bus at 66MHz. Most P2s and all P3s run the bus at
>: 100Mhz. But most overclocked Celerons run at 100Mhz bus speed as well.
>
>: Between the two, I'd go with the Celeron. Especially if I were interested
>: in overclocking. P2s have pretty poor price/performance and P3s are a
>: total joke IMHO.
>
>: My biases? I went with AMD, since I'm no big fan of Intel. A K6-3 (256k
>: CPU speed L2 cache, 100MHz bus, and L3 cache on the motherboard) is a better
>: choice than either Intel in my book.
>
>I agree that AMD is the underdog and its good to help them out, but
>the k6-3 is way overpriced. a cel 300a o/c to 450 is still the best
>price/perf on the market.
>
>--
>Bryan [at] Grateful.Net
>http://www.Grateful.Net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: 28 SCSI drives
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 05:06:20 GMT
Could you point me to that file, I can't seem to find it. I looked at
devices.txt and the two scsi*.txt files that came with my 2.2.9 source,
but I don't see anything on those limits. Thanks,
Greg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think people might have confused disk drives with devices. There is
a 16
> SCSI disk drive limit due to the requirement of specifying both drive
number
> and partition number in a single byte. But the kernel limit on
overall SCSI
> devices and SCSI CDROMS is 256. There is a document in the source
tree that
> explains this, and the source itself of course. Your real CDROM
expansion
> limit will be determined by how many SCSI controllers you can install
in the
> system, although the new fibre channel support may allow getting
around that.
>
> On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 04:38:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >My server is up and running! It has 28 CD-ROM drives recognized and
> >available. It only created seven entried of SCD in /dev/ but it was
> >easy to create the rest. I think that whoever was saying that the
> >kernel only supported 16 devices was a wee bit confused. I've got a
> >website with some info on the server set-up and it's progress at
> >http://www.cu-portland.edu/is2/tower/
> >Check it out!
> > Greg
> >
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> >
> >> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> > Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > > gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> > >
> >> > <SNIP>
> >> > > Ummm, the point of the original posting was that Linux kernel
will
> >not
> >> > support
> >> > > more than 16 separate scsi devices. If the kernel doesn't
support
> >a
> >> > higher
> >> > > number, creating the extra device entries with mknow just won't
> >work.
> >> > The
> >> > > original poster might want to look into the devfs patch, which
> >might
> >> > provide
> >> > > relief.
> >> >
> >> > Can somebody confirm or deny this? Does the kernel really only
> >support
> >> > 16 SCSI devices? I can see where this could be that somebody
didn't
> >> > understand, since you can have a MAX of 16 devices per Wide SCSI
> >> > channel, but why wouldn't it support more devices if there were
> >multiple
> >> > SCSI channels?
> >>
> >> I'm interested in this too. I have four SCSI devices on two
channels.
> >> My motherboard (Adeptec 78xx) supports 30 devices on the
motherboard.
> >>
> >> Not that I'm planning on adding (22) 18Gig drives tomorrow, mind
> >you...
> >> <g>
> >>
> >> Dan
> >> --
> >> UNIX - Not just for vestal virgins anymore
> >> Linux - Choice of a GNU generation
> >>
> >
> >
> >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> >Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: "Cyberant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FAT32
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:45:45 +0200
Can I see FAT32 hard-drives in Linux? If so how? I have tried just about
everything I know of, but nothing.
Thanx in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI scananer?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 04:51:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch) wrote:
> Can somebody recommend a low-end SCSI scanner that works well with the
> available software in Linux? I currently have a Mustek parallel port
> scanner that is tied to Windows (bleh) and I am looking to replace it.
> Does anybody have experience with the UMAX 610S or 1220S?
I haven't had the best expierences with Umax scanners. The SCSI cards
that they come with aren't SCSI cards at all, and only work with that
scanner. I've also tried to hook a number of Umax "SCSI" scanners up to
real SCSI cards, but they never seem to work. We have some real HP
scanners, that are a bunch more expensive, but they are SCSI, and seem
to work pretty well.
Greg
>The prices are
> right, but how is the compatibility? On that note, what is a decent
> scanning software package?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike.
>
> --
> ======================================================================
> Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
> Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
> ======================================================================
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Sonu Sahi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question installing SCSI drivers for initio
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:37:59 -0600
At least you guys were able to get Linux up and running in the first
place! I have the Initio INI-9100AS card, it came with my Sony cd burner.
I havent had a problem with it until trying to install Linux off a cd-rom.
I burned the .iso of Mandrake Linux v5.3 (which is basically redhad 5.2 i
believe). The Initio stuff is not in the list of possible SCSI cards in
mandrake's install. So basically, my problem is that i cant get mandrake to
recognize my scsi card, which in turn would enable to me to actually perform
the installation of linux off the cdrom.
I know there have been similar discussions in other threads, but the
difference is that the people in the other threads already had linux
installed... i've never used linux in my life and want to learn more about
it, but i need to be able to install it first :) Any advice is
appreciated, thanks.
Scott Fisher wrote:
> Hi,
> I am rather new to linux (about a month now). I have 5.2 up and
> running (sidenote: linux rocks!)
> I want to get access to some of the devices on my SCSI card
> (scanner, CD-R). I have an initio -I/O Highway INI-9100A SCSI card.
> The driver for this card is not included in the standard install, hoever
> initio provides drivers for linux.
> First question. Has anyone used these drivers? If so which
> version they have two or three.
> Second question. I already have SCSI support in the kernel.
> Can I just compile the drivers and load them as a module? or do I need
> to actually rebuild the kernel. (I haven't rebuilt a kernel yet so I'm
> kinda leary). I may not have the full scope of how the SCSI drivers
> work.
>
> Any help on these two questions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ***** HELP PLEASE Linux RH5.1 won't boot
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 20:13:28 +0200
Nick wrote:
> I tried booting from my linux boot disk and using the rescue disk.
> After it mounts successfully, I tried to run e2fsck, but it fails
> with many of the same errors, plus, it says the partition is write
> protected. Actually, I think it failed when I tried to mount the
> linux partition on my hard disk.
You sholdn't mount the partion before running e2fsck.
regards Henrik
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From: Shaun Noonan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bttv w/ Diamond 2001TV?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 19:53:59 GMT
Has anyone gotten bttv to detect this card? If so, what options did
you specify? I've been trying to get this thing working for about 4 days
now!
Here's the info for my machine if it helps:
Dual Slot1 Celeron on a Tiger 1862(?)DL MB
Redhat 6.0 installed
Running either kernel 2.2.5 or 2.3.5
Diamond 2001TV video/tuner/video capture card
Thanks!
-Shaun
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From: Kanako Kanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where can I find the driver of Cabletron E22xx(network card)?
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:50:09 -0400
Hi all,
I couldn't find it anywhere...
Does anybody know?
Thank you in advance.
--Kana
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