Linux-Hardware Digest #375, Volume #13 Tue, 8 Aug 00 00:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help with printer, please! (dpace)
Re: IDE CD-Recorder ("Horst Simon")
MS Serial Mouse + fvwm95 on laptop (Henry Lee)
Re: 3com 10/100 LAN Cardbus in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers (Bob Hauck)
Re: Pentium III (Michael Meissner)
Re: initrd lilo option? (Michael Meding)
I think I clobbered my /dev/lpr device :) (Jeremy Gregorio)
Whats up with the RIVA TNT? ("aquafunk")
Building New Box : Hardware List? (Kevin Gerich)
NEC CDrom (Ben van der Kruyssen)
Re: Installing an NIC (Peter Teuben)
Re: NEC CDrom (Prasanth A. Kumar)
How do I power down monitor when logged out? RH6.2 (Craig McCluskey)
Re: Good tape brands for DC6250 drive (hac)
Re: IDE CD-Recorder (hac)
Re: Dual processor board? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LS-120 Drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: dpace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help with printer, please!
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:13:54 +0000
Fortis wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Our office just bought the new printer (I never forget that day) Epson
> EPL5700L. I was running RH6.2 box and now MDK7.1 and the printer was Kyocera
> FS-600. Everything was ok until the new printer came into our office. :(
>
> Please help me to make THAT Epson EPL5700L running. It is almost the only
> thing that keeps me rebooting to M$W but I want it to stop some day...
>
> Best regards
> Fortis
>
> P.S. Please post a copy of a reply to my email as well. Thanks a lot.
It does work. Check these links:
http://http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=158569
www.linuxprinting.org/
--
David Pace - Free commodity/stock graphing software
and Linux links at http://www.daveware.com
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From: "Horst Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE CD-Recorder
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 11:34:24 +1000
I use an IDE-CDRECORDER on SuSE 6.4 with Kernel-2.2.16 and it worked fine
by following the instructions in the CD-Writing HOWTO.
I tested kernel-2.4.0-test5 and there it is failling that it cannot load the ide-cd
module. It is compiled into the kernel and available.
Are there different instructions for IDE CD-Recorders for kernel-2.4.0?
Thanks and Regards,
Horst Simon
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 17:12:15 +0200, Vladimir Laserman wrote:
>>Hi all, I have IDE-Recrder, on linux Redhat 6.0 Please help to
>>configurate CD-Recorder.
>
> Please help yourself: http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
>
> Follow that document's instructions, and if you have problems, post the
> exact error messages/commands you typed/make+model of the CD-R(W) you
> have. HTH, good luck.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: MS Serial Mouse + fvwm95 on laptop
Date: 8 Aug 2000 01:21:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello.
As the onboard PS/2 touchpad mouse on my NEC2430 laptop has decided
to give up the ghost, I tried to attach a Microsoft Serial mouse. So far,
I'm at a loss to determine how to get the MS Serial mouse to work under X.
Points:
* NEC2430CD notebook (32Mb/1.03Gb)
* Slackware 3.1 (kernel 2.0.27)
* XFree86 3.1.2
* I'm running fvwm95, but NOT running gpm (would prefer to stick w. this)
* Microsoft serial mouse 2.1A
* assuming /dev/ttyS0 is COM1 using IRQ4
* I removed former link that had /dev/psaux linked to /dev/mouse
* I made the new link: 'ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse'
* 'setserial -g -v /dev/ttyS0' tells me that
/dev/ttyS0, UART:16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ 4
Problems:
* With edits to my XF86Config file, I get the following when I 'startx' to
start fvwm95. In my .xinitrc, I've selected a dark blue as the
colour for the background desktop.
Under the Pointer section of my XF86Config file, I've modified the
Protocol field. The remaining two fields: Device "/dev/mouse" and
Emulate3Buttons were set.
Protocol response
======== ========
"Microsoft" X hangs w. x-cursor and default grey screen; I can move the
serial mouse and can see x-cursor move across screen.
"MouseSystems" X starts normally, but mouse functions are garbled and
cannot get consistent mouse movement across screen
"Mouseman" same as "Microsoft"
"Logitech" X starts normally, but I get no mouse functions.
"BusMouse" same as "Logitech"
"MMSeries" same as "Microsoft"
So, the best response upon starting X (re. Microsoft protocol) is
(i) I get as far as the default screen with the little x-shaped cursor.
(ii) I can move the serial mouse and the cursor moves w. the mouse.
(iii) The onboard (now defective) ps/2 touchpad mouse is disabled, which
is what I want.
BUT
(iv) X doesn't completely "load" with the presets found in my .xinitrc
I would appreciate any advice on this matter.
Thanks.
p.s. I also had a Champ serial mouse lying around, but I simply could NOT
get this latter mouse to work at all within the Windows 95 GUI,
which unfortunately I need on a separate partition. Not surprisingly, the
Microsoft serial mouse worked fine until I booted the Linux side and X.
--
Henry Lee http://aries.phys.yorku.ca/~lee/
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
York University, 4700 Keele St. Phone: 416-736-2100 x66391
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 Canada Fax: 416-736-5516
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:46:39 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.periphs.pcmcia,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: 3com 10/100 LAN Cardbus in Linux
Did you download the pcmcia source files and recompile it in your machine?
I had the same problem with RH 6.x (even 6.2) out of the box. You can
download the pcmcia sources, compile the pcmcia modules, install, and
reboot the machine... This card is working beutifully with my laptop.
Good Luck!
Shao
dsgfu wrote:
> I'm trying to get my pcmcia network card to work in Linux. Its a 3com
> Cardbus Model 3CCFE575BT. I'm installing on Linux Mandrake. I downloaded
> the latest kernel-pcmcia rpm which has the module for this card
> (3c575_cb.o). I don't know what to do after that. The pcmcia HOWTO talks
> about installing the source and recompiling the kernel, but says nothing
> about what to do if you installed from the RPM. When I boot up, pcmcia
> starts up, but there are no beeps, also no beeps when i insert/remove the
> card. If anyone knows what to do, please let me know.
>
> If not to much trouble, please email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: UDMA IDE Drive stops network transfers
Reply-To: bobh{at}haucks{dot}org
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 01:43:44 GMT
On 7 Aug 2000 19:04:07 GMT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>/dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.94 seconds = 12.96 MB/sec
>/dev/hdb:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 4.88 seconds = 13.11 MB/sec
>
>VIA MVP3 chipset w/VIA UDMA support enabled in kernel 2.2.16, hdparm
>-u1 -c1 -m16 -d1 applied to both drives.
/dev/sda1:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 4.13 seconds =30.99 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 8.64 seconds = 7.41 MB/sec
This is a Cyrix 133 with a three-year-old Quantum Viking drive running
off an Adaptec 2940 controller. No tweaking needed, and it was just as
fast three years ago when it was in a P-100. I just had to share <grin>.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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Subject: Re: Pentium III
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Aug 2000 22:01:48 -0400
"Paolo Montini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
> does anybody know how Linux (Mandrake or others) works on a Pentium III ?
> Are there any reports or something, because I am wondering to upgrade my
> processor to the Pentium III and I want to keep using my Mandrake !
I dunno, this Pentium-III (500 Mhz, dual processor) system has worked fine in
the last 1 1/4 years. As long as your kernel is reasonably up to date, you
shouldn't have a problem.
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: Michael Meding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: initrd lilo option?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 03:11:14 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there,
it loads the initial ramdisk (the *.img). mkinitrd initrd-2.x.x.img
2.x.x will do the job.
I never managed to discover the pros of initial ramdisks though.
Regards
Michael
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From: Jeremy Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I think I clobbered my /dev/lpr device :)
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 19:22:15 -0700
Ok, I'm a real newbie and I think I just did my first real stupid
thing. As root I entered the following command:
#> ls > /dev/lpr
what I ment to do was this:
#> ls > /dev/lp0
Anyway, now I don't really know what to do. I'm thinking of recompiling
the kernal, since I think that might reinstall the device. Is there a
better/correct way? I'm still really confused about printing in
linux/unix in general, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
in advance. :).
Jeremy Gregorio
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "aquafunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Whats up with the RIVA TNT?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 02:32:03 GMT
Help I am trapped in the land of microsoft and I can't get out!
I have Redhat 6.2 installed right now as a triple boot with win98 and 2000.
Everything works great except I can't get into X. I have a Asus Riva TNT AGP
card 16meg. and it's just not happening. I tried the install with an ATI
Xpert98 AGP, no prob. But I need the newer card to do my work.
If anyone could help me with a web site or newsgroup with usefull info, I
would be eternally endebted.
Thanks in advance
Sean
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From: Kevin Gerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Building New Box : Hardware List?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:43:58 -0400
Hi all,
I'm in the process of putting together a new box. I've never built one
for Linux before and I want to make careful hardware choices. Here's my
list of components so far:
ABIT KA7 or KT7 motherboard
Athlon Thunderbird 800mhz CPU
Voodoo 3 3000 video
Can anyone share their experience with any of these components or a
combination under Linux? I'd appreciate the feedback. Thanks!
Kevin
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From: Ben van der Kruyssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEC CDrom
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:55:05 -0400
I have only had my Red Hat for a week so maybe i havent looked through the
documentation well enough.It seems that as soon as my system is running and
has a CD in it wont let it go. It reads it just fine .I am using kde.
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From: Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing an NIC
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 23:17:02 -0400
I just went through this excersize. Yes, it was very amusing to
note that Linksys put just a README.TXT file (and COPYING :-)
in the Linux subdirectory on the floppy. Moreover, to their own
emberrassment, they quote slackware3.5 and redhat5.x instructions,
which are waaaaaaay out of date. and this for a file that is dated
Jan-28 2000!!!
Anyways, the right way to do it is download tulip.c, but also the
associated files pci-scan.c, pci-scan.h and kern_compat.h.
Compile both the tulip.c and pci-scan.c as per instructions on
the last few lines in the source code. You need version 0.91h,
this is very important, the official Becker release won't do,
you need the new beta driver (which seems to work fine for me,
I get 5-10MB/sec).
Anyways, here were my steps:
gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c
gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6
-c pci-scan.c
insmod pci-scan.o
insmod tulip.o
ifup eth0
and i was running (I had already configured the network on a previous
card)
Read Becker's instructions on www.scyld.com where you can also find
the latest tulip driver.
- peter
Blayne Wessels wrote:
>
> Actually, there was no readme: just tulip.c and the GNU General Public
> License. Although, being a programmer, I tried using djgpp to compile and
> received the following errors:
> tulip.c:75: linux/config.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:76: linux/version.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:87: linux/kernel.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:88: linux/sched.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:89: linux/string.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:90: linux/timer.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:91: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:92: linux/ioport.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:93: linux/malloc.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:94: linux/interrupt.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:95: linux/pci.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:96: linux/netdevice.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:97: linux/etherdevice.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:98: linux/skbuff.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:99: asm/processor.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:100: asm/bitops.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:101: asm/io.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> tulip.c:134: linux/bios32.h: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> Apparently, I don't have the necessary include files to compile into
> "tulip.o". Where might I find these?
>
> "Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 22:30:34 GMT, Blayne Wessels wrote:
> > >I have Debian Linux installed on one of my machines and want to get it on
> my
> > >network. I put in a Linksys 10/100Mbps network card (LNE100TX) and it
> > >didn't recognize it. I later found that I would need the "Tulip Driver."
> I
> > >also found, under "\Linux" on the driver disks for the NIC, a file called
> > >tulip.c. So I guess that what I'm really asking is: do I need to compile
> > >the kernel with the tulip.c to use the NIC and if so, how?
> >
> > The tulip.c file is source code for a kernel module. COmpile the
> > tulip.c code as per the instructions in the README that should be in the
> > same directory as tulip.c, then move the tulip.o module to
> > /lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION/net/ and run "depmod -a". Then you should
> > be able to do "insmod tulip" and be able to use the NIC after you've
> > given it an IP address with "ifconfig". After you've verified that the
> > NIC works and such, edit /etc/conf.modules and insert the line
> > alias eth0 tulip
> > somewhere, commenting out any other lines that refer to eth0. Then the
> > module loader will automagically load tulip.o whenever eth0 is accessed.
> > HTH,
> >
> > --
> > Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
> see
> > Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
> > http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
> > -----------------------------/ --Charles Peguy
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Subject: Re: NEC CDrom
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 03:20:47 GMT
Ben van der Kruyssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have only had my Red Hat for a week so maybe i havent looked through the
> documentation well enough.It seems that as soon as my system is running and
> has a CD in it wont let it go. It reads it just fine .I am using kde.
That is because the system will not let you eject a cd unless every
user of that cd stops using it. First thing to do is check you
/etc/fstab line associated with the cd and make sure there is a noauto
option on the fourth column for that line. You may want to use
linuxconf or some other tool if you are not familiar with editing
configuration files manually.
The other thing I suggest is that you remove the autorun RPM
package. I find it a pita because it tries to second guess you on
mounting of cds. For that do 'rpm -e autorun'.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I power down monitor when logged out? RH6.2
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:18:41 -0500
I'm using Red Hat 6.2 and Gnome and like the way my
monitor is turned off when I have power management
turned on in the screensaver.
I would also like to have power management active
when I'm not logged in.
Does anyone know how to do that?
Craig
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Good tape brands for DC6250 drive
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 03:34:22 GMT
"David C." wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela) writes:
> >
> > Just curious. am I the only one that had problems with Maxell
> > DC6150 tapes?
>
> Never used them. When I worked for a company that used 6150s, they were
> all 3M.
>
> > Never saw an imation audio cassette. Hypethetically. if Imation did
> > make cassette tapes. how well do you think they would stand up to
> > heavy abuse or in my case the descriminating ear?
>
> Many years ago, you could get cassettes with the "Scotch" brand. They
> worked well. (I haven't seen them around recently, so they probably got
> out of that market.)
>
Scotch is a 3M brand name. When 3M decided to get out of the digital
data storage business, they spun it off as Imation. I'm not sure what
happened to the audio and video tape lines.
Imation cartridges might be made in the former 3M factories, or they
might not. But their CD-R's seem to be the usual rebranded Taiwanese
ones that everyone else also rebrands. Everyone out-sources today.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE CD-Recorder
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 03:40:35 GMT
Horst Simon wrote:
>
> I use an IDE-CDRECORDER on SuSE 6.4 with Kernel-2.2.16 and it worked fine
> by following the instructions in the CD-Writing HOWTO.
> I tested kernel-2.4.0-test5 and there it is failling that it cannot load the ide-cd
> module. It is compiled into the kernel and available.
> Are there different instructions for IDE CD-Recorders for kernel-2.4.0?
>
When kernel 2.4.0 is released, there will be new instructions. It's
not out yet.
Kernel-2.4.0-test5 is a preliminary, test-only, non-production version
intended to be used by experienced users to check for dangerous bugs.
If you need instructions, you probably shouldn't run it. Wait for the
official one.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual processor board?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 03:35:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It would be good if someone could look into this. I did a long search
> for similar problems, and found that it is a recurring problem for all
> i840 SuperMicro boards, not just in linux, but other o/s's as well. In
> particular, this one message occurs when logging does not die instantly:
> unexpected IRQ vector 217 on CPU#0!
>
> It can also occur on CPU#1, but the 217 is consistent in all cases. This
> message has been reported on both IDE-only machines, and SCSI machines.
> Failure occurs under either rapid i/o of many small files, or a few
> large files, or mount/umount, using any filesystem type or driver. I can
> repeat the problem via rapid mount/umount of the cdrom. The filesystem
> driver that originates the problem is the first to die, but even if, for
> example, the scsi is still alive, it will also die shortly thereafter
> (seconds to live)...sync is not possible, even with magic-sysrq.
>
I have had linux-2.4.0-test5 OOPS on me with this board under the following
circumstances: - using APIC - running fsck on my USB ZIP 250 (ext2
filesystem)
I didn't get anything in the logs, but there was an "Aiiee!! Kernel Panic!"
at line 614 (?) in sched.c that was dumped to the console, and something
about an interrupt being removed??
I had thought that this was USB related, because the USB / SCSI subsystems
seem a bit flaky, but then they ARE resting on a less-than-solid mobo
foundation at the moment ... ;-)
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LS-120 Drive
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 03:45:56 GMT
Hi,
I have an LS-120 drive installed on my Athlon running SuSE-6.4 Linux
distro with Linux-2.4.0-test5 kernel. The kernel detected the drive as
shown below:
+++++
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: LS-120 VER5 00 Rev: F523
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 23.D
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 246528 [120 MB] [0.1
GB]
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Protected
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1
GB]
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
+++++
However, I can't seem to be able to delete/create/format/erase the
partition. The kernel put out a message the the drive is write
protected as shown in the above. Does anyone have such a problem using
the LS-120 drive under Linux?
BTW, my ZIP-100 drive functions properly (see the above kernel message).
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