Linux-Hardware Digest #336, Volume #12 Thu, 24 Feb 00 20:13:14 EST
Contents:
IDE Controller failure ("Andrew Miklas")
Re: not able to install linux on pentium 100 (David C.)
Re: Advanced Power Management and SMP? ("David ..")
Re: Frustrated trying to install sound! Please help! (JEDIDIAH)
SBlive + ALSA (wica)
Re: Red Hat 6.1 and Toshiba Tecra 8100 Series 13CF3 (Jonathan Buzzard)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Jonathan Buzzard)
oce-plotter ("ole hinzpeter")
/proc/interrupts (Buller)
Re: a VERY stupid question!! (Vladimir Florinski)
Re: Any good external modems for Linux (Michael Kelly)
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Distribution for Laptop (Rod Smith)
Re: not able to install linux on pentium 100 (Mechthild Huebscher)
Some help!!!! ("John E. Maynus")
D-Link DE-650 PCMCIA ethernet card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux and DVD ("Shazam")
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From: "Andrew Miklas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE Controller failure
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:13:12 GMT
Hi all,
About every 3rd or 4th reboot, my init scripts tell me that the partition
that I have my root filesystem installed on is corrupted, and asks me to
drop to single user mode to run fsck (which I do, repairing any damage on
the partition -- answering yes to every question). As time goes on, the
frequency of reboots on which these errors occur and the severity of the
errors that these errors increases. This also seems to happen two a general
usage partition on this drive a fair bit as well.
I have tried swapping out the affected hard drive; however, the same occurs
no matter what hard drive I have installed (I have tried three different
hard drives - reinstalling the OS each time). I have noticed that the error
only seems to occur on partitions on the hard drive on the primary IDE
interface - with the exception of my (/boot) filesystem and swap partition.
The machine has two hard drives, one on each IDE interface. The partitions
on the hard drive on the secondary IDE interface don't seem to suffer from
this error.
Currently, both hard drives are identical in manufacturer and BIOS
configuration.
Am I correct in believing that the problem is in the primary IDE controller,
since the error is occurring only on the primary IDE hard disk? Could this
be a memory related problem? Am I correct in taking this as a hardware
problem? Are the partitions on the hard drive on the primary IDE interface
not being unmounted correctly when I do a reboot (shutdown -r now) or a
system halt?
I am running RedHat 6.1, using an unmodified kernel.
There is also one message that seems to show up in (/var/log/dmesg) a fair
bit. I am including it below:
<2>EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
blocks count for group 105, stored = 7043, counted = 7075
<2>EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free
blocks count in super block, stored = 1135447, counted = 1135479
I am more than willing post logs and further info on the errors fsck is
giving me if it would be helpful.
Any help would be appreciated,
Andrew Miklas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,linux.redhat.install,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.misc
Subject: Re: not able to install linux on pentium 100
Date: 24 Feb 2000 18:14:24 -0500
Mechthild Huebscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> i tried to install linux (both suse 6.3 and redhat 6.1) on a olivetti
> modulo m4 p100.
> this didnt work.
> i can boot from disk or cdrom, but then, e.g. when i press <return> on
> "boot:"..(suse)......then theres written:"loading initrd" but then it
> doesnt happen anything more, just a black screen.
> when i was booting from disk there ist was:"loading initdisk.gz" but
> then also the black screen and nothing more.......
> what do i make wrong?
> are there maybe any computers that dont like linux? :-((((
>
> help please, i really dont understand wheres the problem
>
> mechthild huebscher
>
> ps: i installed linux before on two other pcs, this worked fine
How much memory do you have?
According to Redhat, 16M is required for 6.x. Version 5.2 only requires
8M.
I know that Linux will run on systems with as little as 4M, but the
install program may fail if you have less. This is because the
installer can not make use of a swap file for virtual memory.
If your distribution gives you a choice between a graphical and
non-graphical installer (like RH 6.1 does), choose the non-graphical
one. It will use less memory.
If this doesn't work, you may be able to play some games to make the
installer run anyway. Such as manually creating a swap partition, and
modifying the installer's boot floppy to use it. I have not done this
before, so I can't help you out if you want to attempt this.
-- David
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Advanced Power Management and SMP?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:26:20 -0600
Symmetric Multi Processing
CONFIG_SMP
This enables support for systems with more than one CPU. If you have
a system with only one CPU, like most personal computers, say N. If
you have a system with more than one CPU, say Y.
If you say N here, the kernel will run on single and multiprocessor
machines, but will use only one CPU of a multiprocessor machine. If
you say Y here, the kernel will run on many, but not all,
singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel
will run faster if you say N here.
Note that if you say Y here and choose architecture "586" or
"Pentium" under "Processor family", the kernel will not work on 486
architectures. Similarly, multiprocessor kernels for the "PPro"
architecture may not work on all Pentium based boards.
People using multiprocessor machines who say Y here should also say
Y to "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support", below. The "Advanced Power
Management" code will be disabled if you say Y here.
Above from: http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/Configure.help-2.2
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: Frustrated trying to install sound! Please help!
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:20:56 GMT
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 03:06:08 -0800, Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If so, why are they packaging the non-standard kernels?
Bugfixes, more drivers...
From the point of view of a bit of sound driver source
it really shouldn't matter.
>
>JEDIDIAH wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 02:29:00 -0800, Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Even with the PNP stuffs configured. The Redhack kernel does not work properly
>> >for certain sound chips. My suggestion is to download and install the standard
>> >kernel instead.
>>
>> There's really not much there to hack with.
>>
>> >
>> >JEDIDIAH wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Any Redhat variant should be able to successfully deal
>> >> with an isa pnp sound card by just running sndconfig.
>> >> The nasty bits can be automated.
>> >
>>
>> --
>> |||
>> Resistance is not futile. / | \
>>
>>
>> Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
>
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Resistance is not futile. / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: wica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SBlive + ALSA
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:06:02 +0100
Hello can some1 give me please a exmple of the file /etc/conf.modules
White in it the correct settings for the SBLive
Thnx wica
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Buzzard)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.1 and Toshiba Tecra 8100 Series 13CF3
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:56:31 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Roger E Critchlow Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[SNIP]
> I don't know what the issues are with the SpeedStep CPU's, but it
> seems I saw some commercial linux laptop vendor offering them.
>
Nothing other than any other Toshiba. All Toshiba notebooks capable of
running Linux can change the CPU frequency while powered up, usually
with the Fn+F2 keyboard combination to change the power save mode.
That said some of the kernel timings depend on the Bogomips value
calculated at boot so nasty things could happen if the speed of the
CPU suddenly changes. However I have never seen anything nasty
actually happen.
JAB.
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Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)1661-832195
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Buzzard)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:01:05 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim Howes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> As we ship these things to power stations, who will break them anyway,
> it's not a false economy, as they'll break the expensive ones too.
> At 96p, we can afford to ship several spares with the system so that
> they don't bother us with support calls for broken mice.
>
> Most of the mice get broken due to atmospheric muck clogging up the
> optical sensors. You just wouldn't beleive how dirty some power
> stations are. Tip: When going on site to fix something, always
> wear your oldest, tattiest clothes, esp. to Didcot.
>
Have you considered getting suitably IP rated mice for this enviroment?
They are avaliable you know. I would not be surprised if the keyboards
pack in as well.
JAB.
--
Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)1661-832195
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From: "ole hinzpeter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: oce-plotter
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:21:00 +0100
Hi !!!
I`ve got an oc� wide-format pen-plotter g1825 which I`d like to use with my
linux- cad-software. But I`ve got no idea how to configure it !!! can
anybody help me??? Please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! Thanks so
far- Ole
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From: Buller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /proc/interrupts
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:27:18 -0700
One of my boxes hangs approx. every 2 hours when running RH 6.1 and the
badblocks disk exerciser. For starters I thought we had it nailed when
somebody else noticed one of the SCSI drivers was sharing an interrupt
w/ the LAN adapter:
Original /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 648831 XT-PIC timer
1: 2113 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 7938370 XT-PIC ncr53c8xx
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 17071 XT-PIC aic7xxx, Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100
Ethernet
10: 25102 XT-PIC aic7xxx
11: 30 XT-PIC ncr53c8xx
12: 3302 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 21838 XT-PIC ide0
I changed the BIOS interrupt setting for the LAN card to 0xf.... and
most all the interrupts magically changed to "IO-APIC-*" instead of the
original "XT-PIC":
New /proc/interrupts
[buller@linux2 ~]$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 466031 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 1223 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
12: 2635 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 15610 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 45 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
16: 19825 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
29: 30 IO-APIC-level ncr53c8xx
32: 2228969 IO-APIC-level ncr53c8xx
33: 7171 IO-APIC-level Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 Ethernet
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
[buller@linux2 ~]$
What is the difference between XT-PIC and IO-APIC-level/edge? (I
understand the concept of level and edge triggered interrupts, its the
"XT-PIC and IO-APIC" part that I don't understand the significance of ).
Which type of interrupt is Linux most stable with? XT-PIC or IO-APIC-*?
Why would changing one device from Interrupt 9 to 0xf cause this much
change to all the other devices?
Thanks,
Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a VERY stupid question!!
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:32:18 -0700
Edward Lee wrote:
>
> Actually, Windows users don't know Linux but Linux users know Windows.
>
Speak for yourself. There are many Linux users who don't know (or use) Windows
(I happen to be one of them BTW).
--
Vladimir
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any good external modems for Linux
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:24:40 -0500
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:19:06 GMT, "KAP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an HP Pavilion 8670C with an internal Conexant SoftK 56 PCI modem
>(not usable in Linux) and would like to find a reasonably priced external
>modem I can plug into a serial port and use with Linux. Any recommendations
>(btw, I do not have an available ISA slot)??
>
Although a bit on the expensive side, I've been having good luck
with External USR/3COM Sportster 56K V90 Fax/Modems. Just
make sure when you configure the serial port you take advantage
of the hw buffering. On some versions of slackware it wouldn't do it
unless you told it the UART was a 16550C or some such. Check your
HOWTO for the serial ports for the info. I've used this same type
modem in Linux, OS/2 Warp, Win95, Win98 and Windows NT 4
Server and it performs at the same level on all OSs.
>Thanks in advance.
Sure thing. :)
>Ken
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage,comp.os.os2.setup.video
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:44:00 -0500
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/24/00
at 07:44 PM, "William L. Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>E-Mail me if you know how to get the AWE32 drivers to work on an AWE64
>Gold PNP, which is what I got? I would dearly love to hear what I paid
>$$$. Cannot get the midi to even work unless every once in a while
>Winos2 starts it.
With intermittent performance in Win-OS/2, maybe there *is* hope, however
slight.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Best Distribution for Laptop
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:53:00 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <893n8r$bj5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Kachi Armony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi. I have a NEC 2700 series laptop (P133, 32MB RAM, 2.1GB HD, CDROM, Modem,
> PCMCIA Ethernet, etc).
> I will like to know what the best distribution for laptops would be. I have
> a 450MB partition ready for Linux to be installed (dual boot with WIN95). I
> guess my main use for Linux will be Development (C++, Java, and others - I'm
> a CS student). I won't need any fancy apps. If everything (hardware) works
> fine, I may eventually reformat and have my entire drive for Linux only (and
> get rid of Windoze). Please advise.
With only 450MB available, I recommend you start with something that's got
minimal disk space requirements. Debian will install in as little as 33MB,
but that's a pretty spare setup. You could probably get Debian installed
in 200-300MB and have it be somewhat livable, especially if you don't need
big GUI packages like GNOME or KDE.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: Mechthild Huebscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: not able to install linux on pentium 100
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:00:37 +0100
thanks for your help
i tried this:
i put a harddisk with already installed linux in the
olivetti pc and it booted correct , linux running.
i took the 1GB-harddisk and put it in a 486, there
i could install linux also......
now i understand less than before why i didnt work...
Mechthild Huebscher wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i tried to install linux (both suse 6.3 and redhat 6.1)
> on a olivetti modulo m4 p100.
> this didnt work.
> i can boot from disk or cdrom, but then, e.g. when i
> press <return> on "boot:"..(suse)......then theres
> written:"loading initrd" but then it doesnt happen
> anything more, just a black screen.
> when i was booting from disk there ist was:"loading
> initdisk.gz" but then also the black screen and nothing
> more.......
> what do i make wrong?
> are there maybe any computers that dont like linux? :-((((
>
> help please, i really dont understand wheres the problem
>
> mechthild huebscher
>
> ps: i installed linux before on two other pcs, this
> worked fine
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From: "John E. Maynus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Some help!!!!
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:01:00 -0500
I have an A3D Vortex sound card and Red Hat 6.1 won't play any sounds at all
.
Also Red Hat can't find my floppy drive, I put a disk in and nothing, says s
omething about mounted wrong or something like that. I have a new kernal on
disk and want to install it but can't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: D-Link DE-650 PCMCIA ethernet card
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 00:40:53 GMT
Hi,
I have a problem with a
D-Link DE-650 PCMCIA ethernet card (+RJ45 `tail')
when using this with a Gateway 2000 Solo 2100 laptop running Debian
2.0, kernel version 2.0.34 and PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.11.
The symptoms are:
- The card appears to configure okay. (Two high beeps, and ifconfig
seems okay -- output shortly.)
- No traffic appears to get off the card.
- The light on the tail with the RJ45 socket never comes on.
ifconfig reports:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:85:81:39
inet addr:192.168.16.99 Bcast:192.168.16.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
/proc/net/dev never shows any receive packets; only transmit packets.
The only other anomaly I can find is related to when I remove the
card. Sometimes, there is a series of messages (from 19:46:14) like
this when the card is ejected:
Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart.
Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.11
Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: kernel build: 2.0.34 #2 Tue Aug 3
20:22:30 GMT 1999
Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: Cirrus PD6729 PCI-to-PCMCIA at slot
00:13, port 0xfcfc
Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [1/3/2]
[1/9/2]
Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: host opts [1]: [ring] [1/3/2]
[1/9/2]
Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: ISA irqs (default) =
3,4,5,9,10,11,12 polling interval = 1000 ms
Feb 24 19:36:48 diamond kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03ff:
excluding 0x330-0x337 0x370-0x37f 0x398-0x39f
Feb 24 19:36:48 diamond kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
Feb 24 19:36:48 diamond kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff:
clean.
Feb 24 19:36:48 diamond kernel: loading device 'eth0'...
Feb 24 19:36:48 diamond kernel: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq
3, hw_addr 00:80:C8:85:81:39
Feb 24 19:46:14 diamond kernel: eth0: interrupt(s) dropped!
Feb 24 19:46:14 diamond kernel: eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0
vs 4c.
Feb 24 19:46:14 diamond kernel: eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0
vs ff.
Feb 24 19:46:14 diamond last message repeated 7 times
Feb 24 19:46:14 diamond kernel: eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt,
lasttx=20.
[lots of lines snipped]
Feb 24 19:46:15 diamond kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status
0xff
Feb 24 19:46:15 diamond kernel: eth0: interrupt from stopped card
I've checked that the network cable to the hub is okay.
The card and tail were reported as working okay before I bought it
(however, I
have no means to check it with another OS).
I *think* I've excluded IRQ conflicts (the laptop IR port was allegedly
on
IRQ 3; that's now disabled).
The laptop has happily used a modem card before.
I've now run out of things to check. Have I missed anything I can do?
(I know the answer is almost certainly `yes', but I can't think of
what they are.)
Many thanks in advance,
Phil.
--
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pjb at mithlond48 dot freeserve dot co dot uk
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Shazam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and DVD
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:08:08 -0500
On Luxsonor's website is the following:
****************************
LuxSonor does not have the resources or even the proper people to do a port
to Windows NT 2000 anymore.
We have not been in the PC business for about 2 years. We have tried to
outsource our Windows 2000 driver port to people that did the previous ports
before. Unfortunately, no reasonable agreement could be arranged.
The best we can do is release our source code to the public.
****************************
This is bad news and great news at the same time! Bad news in that I was
looking forward to Windows 2000 drivers for our Luxsonor based DVD cards
(ie. CT7160, Labway, Procomp M410 etc). Great news in that Luxsonor has
decided to give us users the greatest gift of all: Open Source Drivers.
This means that if someone out there is smart enough (and there are a lot of
smart coders out there), we can expect to see continued Windows 98 driver
support for Luxsonor based DVD decoder cards! In addition, we can expect to
see Linux and Windows 2000 drivers for our cards too.
Let's give Luxsonor a big hand of applause for supporting its customers in
such a fashion! There are a lot of companies out there who wouldn't do
this.
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