Linux-Hardware Digest #323, Volume #13 Sun, 30 Jul 00 11:13:07 EDT
Contents:
D-link DE-220PCT nic install help ("Amirul")
Re: Video Capture Card for Linux? (Leon Garde)
Re: Please help me evaluate this hardware's compatability with Linux (Leon Garde)
Re: UPS (Leon Garde)
Re: ext2 hard drive with no superblock (Leon Garde)
dos doesn't boot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RAID on exiistin IDE system ("Yves Bruggeman")
Re: Athalon Motherboards/ Linux Support (Mark Sullivan)
Re: Is the 1024 cylinder limit gone ??? (Leon Garde)
Re: dos doesn't boot ("Steve Morris")
Re: via82cxxx onboard sound - finally works! (fwd) (Janine Roe)
Re: Anyone have SWBell ADSL on Mandrake (or other Linux)? (John McKown)
OSS Maestro 3E (Hannes Fremann)
OSS Maestro 3E (Hannes Fremann)
Re: Building a Linux Server from scratch: Experiences? (kf)
Not all memory detected under linux ("Frederik Tilkin")
Re: nVIDIA GeForce2 GTS drivers ("������")
Re: SMP and command-line execution (Geoff Short)
Re: Linux for raytracing (Geoff Short)
Re: Monitor (kf)
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From: "Amirul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: D-link DE-220PCT nic install help
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:18:07 +0800
Anybody had any success with installing the above with Mandrake 7.1? I've
done ispnp with irq=9 io=0x240 (the parms indicated when I booted with
win98) configured eth0 with the ne driver, but when I modprobe, ne driver
says there's nothing at io 240. Is this d-link nic not worth the trouble?
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video Capture Card for Linux?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Jul 2000 22:26:59 EST
In comp.os.linux.hardware Brian Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone found a Video Capture Card (e.g. Intel Smart Video Recorder III)
> that has Linux drivers?
the smart video recorder III is supported.
this is no longer produced by intel; if you can buy it then get it now.
if you want that particular one.
the zoltrix tuner/video catpure card is supported...
thats the one I've got.
there are 20 others that are supported.
Generally any video capture card using the conexant/phillis
Bt 848 or bt 878 chip will work ; at least for base band video (AV) input.
The tuner on my zoltrix works fine;
I use the application xawtv for watching and bttv driver for the card.
leon
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help me evaluate this hardware's compatability with Linux
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Jul 2000 22:34:58 EST
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A little more seriously, I've never run into a single problem with any
> Intel product I've ever owned. However, I have run into problems with
> every single Intel-alternative (VIA, AMD) product I've ever owned. I
> know of a lot of people who run AMD processors on VIA chipsets quite
> happily, but I will never do it.
intel pentium chipsets only cached 64meg because
intel knew that everyone would want 128meg next year;
ie buy a new motherboard.. planned obsolenscence.
And just last week I hit a problem where
intel boot agent wont boot a flash drive
where it will boot a regular hard disk;
the flash drive works in any computer which doesnt have
intel boot agent . of course this might be msi's fault and not intel's...
I just dont like having socket 7 turn into slot 1 then slot 2
then socket 370 .. just because they expect to make a larger profit that
way.
leon
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UPS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Jul 2000 22:37:58 EST
Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have burned out two cheap UPSes (a CyberPower 98, and a APC Back-UPS office),
you did burn them out ?
or did the batteries fail due to lots of flattening?
leon
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ext2 hard drive with no superblock
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Jul 2000 22:39:59 EST
me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> can anyopne tell me how to retrieve 4 gigs of dadta on a 6 gig
> segate hard drive under suse linux 6.4 when fsck, mount etc
> don't recognise there is a valid ext2 filesystem and dding over
> 2gigs of the drive and mounting as a loop device gives the same
> errors. Any useful suggestions will be greatfully received
> otherwise i will do a mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1
e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdb1
If that fails, it aint got any superblocks left.
you do have a backup ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.msdos,comp.os.msdos
Subject: dos doesn't boot
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:40:20 GMT
Hello,
For installing linux, I have adjusted the BIOS harddisk setting,
switching off LBA and entering manually the nr of sectors, heads and
cyls. Booting linux is no problem, nor is partitioning the full capacity
of the harddrive.
The result of this is however that there's no way to boot DOS (in fact a
Win98-bootdisk) from floppydrive. I even tried doing it via the linux
DOSEMU, but that didn't work either.
Could someone explain:
1. how it is possible not to be able to boot DOS from floppy, just by
having changed harddisk settings; because I thought it should be
possible to boot from floppy even WITHOUT any harddisk
2. maybe a hint on how to get in DOS, because I have some
GHOST-hd-partitions that I should have to put on my system; but as far
as I know, ghost only runs from DOS.
Should anyone know if in my case, VMware would be able to boot DOS? But
for doing so, I'd have to install DOS first by booting it from floppy...
I have a HP Vectra VL system.
Any response is welcome,
Vic
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From: "Yves Bruggeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID on exiistin IDE system
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:39:48 +0200
"Tim Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Thanks for the info ... it lead me to Promise Technology and I am
looking at
> > the Promise FastTrak ATA66 Hotswap Pro kit (comes with controler card
and
> > two hot swap trays ... sells for about $180). It may be a leap of faith
on
> > my part, but I assume this hardware config is supported on Linux
systems.
>
> A bit of caution here. I've played with FastTrak. It worked great for my
> digital video W9x editing system, but all the RAID smarts are in the
> drivers. There is no linux port though Promise has been 'threatening' to
do
> this for over a year.
>
> Find a Promise Ultra/66 or Ultra/100 card and use the linux software raid
> per the pointers I sent or try the scsi option. I've used the MegaRaid
> hardware stuff before and it works also.
>
> Once I got the raid up and running, I practiced with different error
> conditions and rebuild/recovery situations before commiting real data.
Made
> for a high level of confidence.
>
> Good luck.
> --
> timothymoore
> bigfoot
> com
At Promise they don't provide Linux drivers on their website, but I emailed
them
and they sent me a patch for the 2.2 kernel that has been working fine for
a month now on my RH6.2-2.2.16 kernel server in RAID 0+1 (striping and
mirroring)
mode with four 40G Maxtor drives.
Follow exactly the instructions in the README and recompile the kernel.
I have put the patch here:
http://gallery.uunet.be/yves.bruggeman/pub/rel.zip
or here: http://home.flash.net/~yves/pub/rel.zip
Remember this is BETA stuff
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From: Mark Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Athalon Motherboards/ Linux Support
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 13:49:53 +0100
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Bartek Kostrzewa wrote:
> Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> >
> > 1. Does anyone have any experience with Athalon chips under Linux?
>
> Yep, bought a K7V-T with Althon T-Bird 750 (OEM Slot-A version) some
> days ago, works great!
I recently bought a 700MHz T-bird with a Gigabyte AMD751/756 chipset (ie
OEM slot-A version as well). I can't get Redhat 6.2 to run; it installs
but then on reboot I get:
Disabling CPUID Serial Number... general protection fault: 0000
followed by a kernal panic and the machine freezes.
Anyone else found this? Anyone got a workaround? (I haven't tried the
latest kernel yet though which may be fixed).
Mark
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is the 1024 cylinder limit gone ???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Jul 2000 23:01:42 EST
Olivier Breard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for this words, that make me feel better...
> Maybe will I be able to install Linux on my PC....
> Delightfull !!
you only ever had to *boot* from the first 1024 cyliders.
you could have root whereever you wanted
eg
make /boot a small partition in the first 1024.
you can use a dos partition for that.
or use loadlin.exe
1024 cylinder bios is never a problem.
> Thanks, bye !
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From: "Steve Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.msdos,comp.os.msdos
Subject: Re: dos doesn't boot
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:26:20 +0100
Reply-To: "Steve Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi
DO I understand correctly that you're not even able to boot your system
using a DOS system floppy?
What error message do you get when trying to boot using floppy?
Make sure your DOS boot floppy doesn't contain any references to your C:
drive. For example, that the AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files do not try and
load anything from your har drive.
Also, check your BIOS setting tp ,ake sure your Boot sequence is A:, C: and
not C:, A: This will, of course prevent you from booting with ANY floppy.
Lastly, I do not know much about Linux, but I am suprised that it requires
you to alter your dBIOS settings at all. LBA addressing is very common and
used to access large hard drives, so it puzzles me that this change is
required at all?
--
Regards
Steve
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> For installing linux, I have adjusted the BIOS harddisk setting,
> switching off LBA and entering manually the nr of sectors, heads and
> cyls. Booting linux is no problem, nor is partitioning the full capacity
> of the harddrive.
>
> The result of this is however that there's no way to boot DOS (in fact a
> Win98-bootdisk) from floppydrive. I even tried doing it via the linux
> DOSEMU, but that didn't work either.
>
> Could someone explain:
>
> 1. how it is possible not to be able to boot DOS from floppy, just by
> having changed harddisk settings; because I thought it should be
> possible to boot from floppy even WITHOUT any harddisk
>
> 2. maybe a hint on how to get in DOS, because I have some
> GHOST-hd-partitions that I should have to put on my system; but as far
> as I know, ghost only runs from DOS.
>
> Should anyone know if in my case, VMware would be able to boot DOS? But
> for doing so, I'd have to install DOS first by booting it from floppy...
>
> I have a HP Vectra VL system.
>
> Any response is welcome,
>
> Vic
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From: Janine Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: via82cxxx onboard sound - finally works! (fwd)
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 13:57:48 GMT
> GOT IT RUNNING!!!! So, here's the scope:
good deal!
>
> this in conf.modules
>
>
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias cahr-major-14 soundcore
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-2 snd-pcm
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-4 snd-seq-oss
I notice you have a line for snd-mixer with and without the oss as well as
the snd-pcm modules. Do you have the lines without the -oss in order to
both load oss and alsa comptable devices?
> then in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>
>
> (below the notes about issue)
>
> /sbin/modprobe snd-card-via686a #2nd initialze necessary, no idea
> why!
> /usr/bin/esd #to get mixer running finally
> /usr/bin/amixer -yoursettings #make ound unmute
is all this necessary in order to get sound working for you?
Do you have kmod set in the kernel? I think if you have that set then you
don't need any scripts in /rc.d/rc.local. Mine load automatically at
boot up.
--
Janine Roe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: Anyone have SWBell ADSL on Mandrake (or other Linux)?
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 08:30:43 -0500
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:11:54 -0500, Brian E. Parker wrote:
>Hello,
>
> I'm about to finally get ADSL through SouthWest Bell here in Oklahoma.
>I plan on doing IP-Masq'ing to allow the other machines in my house to the
>net via the Linux box. I had this set up just fine at one time with my
>Mandrake machine connecting to the net via a modem and the others just
>sharing the connection.
I have ADSL from SWBell. I'm in Arlington, TX. It works fine on my RedHat 6.0
system. What I got from them was an Kingston Ethernet NIC & the "modem".
I did have a few problems with the NIC. In fact, I had to switch my internal
LAN onto the Kinston NIC & connect my old 3Com NIC to the "modem". Something
about the NIC connected to the "modem" had to run in 10Mb mode & I couldn't
get the Kinston (a 10/100 NIC) to "down shift".
Anyway, with my ADSL, I must use PPPoE. I use Roaring Penguin's PPPoE software.
I've never had a problem with it. You can get it at
http://www.roaringpenguin.com . I never could get DHCP to work directly.
Anyway, once I got the PPPoE working, I used the ipchains command to allow
the Windows98 machine access to the Internet (IP Masquerade). Again, this
was rather simple (once I figured it out, that is <grin>).
Be sure to use ipchains to create a firewall on the Linux box or every script
kiddie in the world will try to hack your machines.
Have fun!
John
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From: Hannes Fremann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OSS Maestro 3E
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:40:23 +0200
Hi,
i've problems with the soundcard in my DEL Latitude CPJ650GT
Notebook. I've to use the Maestro 3 sound driver from the OSS.
It seems that the system (Linux 2.2.12/2.2.14) comes up muted.
When i unmute it with [Fn]+[End] the coplete system hangs and
i've to reset it. Thereafter it comes up unmuted. Anyone an idea
how to unmute the sound without resetting the system (Maybe interrupt
problems ?)
Cheers
--
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Hans-Georg Fremann email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pfalzgrafstr. 14 fax: 08161-871260
85356 Freising
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From: Hannes Fremann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OSS Maestro 3E
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:08:45 +0200
Hi,
i've problems with the soundcard in my DEL Latitude CPJ650GT
Notebook. I've to use the Maestro 3 sound driver from the OSS.
It seems that the system (Linux 2.2.12/2.2.14) comes up muted.
When i unmute it with [Fn]+[End] the coplete system hangs and
i've to reset it. Thereafter it comes up unmuted. Anyone an idea
how to unmute the sound without resetting the system (Maybe interrupt
problems ?)
Cheers
--
=========================================================
Hans-Georg Fremann email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pfalzgrafstr. 14 fax: 08161-871260
85356 Freising
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From: kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Building a Linux Server from scratch: Experiences?
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 10:30:49 -0400
Bob Martin wrote:
>
> David Steuber wrote:
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> > Has anyone else had similar experiences to mine? Does life get easier
> > in the build your own PC game? I feel a lot like I should have just
> > gone with VA Linux and be done with it.
> >
> > Now I have an e-mail to send.
> >
>
> The last computer I bought "pre-built" was an XT back in '85, since then
> I have built all of mine from parts. Back then you could save a great
> deal of money because you paid a premium to have an IBM label on your
> box. These days PCs have become a commodity item and you can end up
> paying more by building it yourself. It stills gives you the advantage
> of getting exactly what you want and if something goes wrong your more
> likely to know how to fix it. But places like emachines are basically
> making disposable computers, keep it 2 years and buy a new one, dump the
> old one.
>
> As far as vendors go , sometimes your parts can come at different times
> because they can be shipped from different warehouses in different
> locations. One thing you have to watch is the shipping, they can
> blindside you with that. I have generally good luck with most place I
> have ordered from , a few of the ones I like now are:
>
> allstarshop.com , axiontech.com, and onsale.com. Shipment was on time,
> no missing parts and shipping was reasonable.
>
> Check sysopt.com for some technical articles and they also have link to
> a reseller ratings page that rates vendors.
> --
>
> Bob Martin
One of the problems I had trying to buy a complete system was that I could never
get all the components I wanted and the sales people would always try to steer
me to some other replacement and make claims that it would "work fine with
Linux", or that I would be "happy" with the replacement. It wound up taking
less time to shop for components separately than it did trying to find one
vendor that had everything I wanted (which I never did).
A tip: When you get your components you'll want to test them incrementally,
i.e., get the basic system working (case, fans, mobo, cpu, video, hard drive, CD
drive, floppy drive), then when these work add in one at a time any sound, SCSI,
CDRW, or other components and test them. For this reason, order the basic
components first. When you get those working, then order the other things.
Another tip: Note my sig.
--
My recommendation: Don't do business with Explorer Micro
of Worthington, Ohio.
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From: "Frederik Tilkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Not all memory detected under linux
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:37:43 GMT
With different kernels (now Redhat 6.2 using kernel 2.2.14-5 or something),
the detection of the amount of RAM is wrong, resulting in my system using
only about 16 MB of 128MB present.
I'm running a athlon K7 700 on an epox K7KXA mainboard.
Does anyone know about this problem?
Output of cat /proc/meminfo:
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From: "������" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nVIDIA GeForce2 GTS drivers
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:47:25 +0900
Hi~
Before I installed redhat 6.2, I got XFree86 4.0.1, XFree86 4.0,
NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-4.src.rpm,
and NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-4.i386.rpm from WEB.
After I installed Redhat 6.2 today, I installed XFree86 4.0 and
NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-4.src.rpm.
And edited XFree86Config as described FAQ in WEB. But there is error, that
tells me "unsupprted board".
So I think that driver can supprt Geforce 256 and Geforce DDR, but can't
support Geforce 2 GTS.
How could you install to linux? Could you tell me how I setup that driver?
My systems are like below.
CPU : Pentium 3 450
M/B : ASUS P3B-F
RAM : 128M
VGA : Hercules 3D Prophet 2 GTS 32MB
Monitor : Viewsonic PT 795
...
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news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]�� �Խ��Ͽ����ϴ�.
> yes you can, and it's damn fast too. i've got one running on my
> dual-pentium 3 board, and am using home compiled nvidia drivers
> with lots of success.
>
> what setup do you have?
>
> you can mail me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want... i'll see
> what ican do to help
>
>
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>
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From: Geoff Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP and command-line execution
Date: 30 Jul 2000 14:40:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what I'd like to do is execute
: processes on a particular CPU from the command-line. I've been told
: this is possible, but how?
It's not an off-the-shelf option with linux at the moment, most people
take the approach of letting the kernel sort out the best way to run
jobs. There may be someone with a patch though...
: Also, I'm looking for a version of 'top' that displays the cpu number
: that each process is executing on. This is available for Sequent
: hardware, but wondered whether this has been done under Linux.
Yes, there is a version of procps out there which lets ps, top
and other programs find out which was the last processor used. (Sorry
no link, search for procps SMP patch) Also load-monitoring tools like
xosview have SMP options.
Geoff
--
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Ever sit and watch ants? They're always busy with Geoff Short
something, never stop for a moment. I just [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't identify with that kind of work ethic. http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~geoff
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From: Geoff Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux for raytracing
Date: 30 Jul 2000 14:45:04 GMT
Prasanth A. Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:> What systems do anybody here run (mem/mhz/proc type/mem speed/bus speed)
:> that use their Linux setups for a lot of raytracing / raytracing only?
: scrap heap. We ran pvmpov on them as a group and got a 5x improvement
: in speed over a single computer. Thus the clustering overhead is 50%
I don't know what sort of runs you were doing, but I'd expect a much
smaller overhead for raytracing, which is invariably cpu-limited. For
multi-frame jobs you could ditch the overhead of pvm and get more speed.
Geoff
--
============================================================================
Ever sit and watch ants? They're always busy with Geoff Short
something, never stop for a moment. I just [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't identify with that kind of work ethic. http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~geoff
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From: kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 10:46:18 -0400
Karen Cheer wrote:
>
> I have A compaq MV 500 Monitor And need some details so i can install
> turbolinux 6.0 can somebody please help me?
>
> Cheer's
>
> Tristram
When I needed hsync and vsync for an NEC E700 (purchased used), I called
up NEC and got these specs from them in a couple minutes, including time
spent on hold. And I'll remember this the next time I go shopping. I
would have been happier if I could have simply pulled this info from a
simple, sensible webpage though.
--
My recommendation: Don't do business with Explorer Micro
of Worthington, Ohio.
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