Linux-Hardware Digest #532, Volume #13 Tue, 5 Sep 00 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: How To Boot Window$ Or Linux ??? ("Rafael Avila de Esp�ndola")
Re: 70Gb Harddisk (Dick Visser)
Re: SB Live! supported?
"cat /proc/mtrr" doesn't display anything? (Id Est)
Anybody want to collaborate on linux palmtop/slate/portable? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: synaptics touchpad (Christopher Michael Collins ())
Partition Magic ("Steve Kenealy")
Re: APC brand UPS with apcupsd --> PANIC! Cannot talk to UPS
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI modem as serial port isn't registering with Linux ("vpiercy")
Re: what's up with Sun? ("Ez-Aton")
PCMCIA? ("Rene")
Where can I find and Elsa Gladiac PCI video card? (stahlee)
Re: ISO ? (mst)
multiport serial PCMCIA? Does it exist? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RICOH MP9060A CDRW only plays 3mins of audio in Linux (Ian Jeffray)
Re: SupraMAX Modem Problems with Linux Mandrake ("Richard H. Reepe")
realaudio (jimbo borders)
Re: realaudio (stahlee)
Re: what's up with Sun?
Re: PCI modem as serial port isn't registering with Linux (James Richard Tyrer)
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From: "Rafael Avila de Esp�ndola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How To Boot Window$ Or Linux ???
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 15:12:43 -0300
In article <O9Ur5.45741$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "kurt"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, I'm Kurt 23 years from Belgium, and I must say, i'm new at this
> ... i just wanna ask a question...
>
> I'm Using Best Linux and my wife wanna use Windows ....
>
> now, this is my problem ... I Have 2 HD on hda1 there is Windows on hdb1
> there is BestLinux on hdb2 is the swap file
>
> but when I'm trying to boot, it just strats windows .... isn't there a
> way to have a screen on the startup , so I can choose with OS I wanna
> Use ???
>
> Thanks Kurt
>
>
>
If you want a free graphical interface for choosing with OS to load
then the GRUB is what you need.
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From: Dick Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 70Gb Harddisk
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 20:22:21 +0200
> Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > a friend of mine just bought a 72Gb IBM DTLA307075 IDE harddisk and
> > would like to run it on linux. Sadly linux recognises only 33.8Gb of
> it.
> > Anyone know a remedy?
> > Running on 2.4.0-test6 kernel, latest fdisk, controlled by a PIIX4 IDE
> > controller.
Be sure to *not* have the 33,8Gb limitation jumper on the drive!!
THats meant for OS-es that cant cope with larger drivers, and restricts
the size at hardwarelevel to 33,8 Gb....
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| J. Catskade 10 hs | |
| 1052 BW Amsterdam | Linux and the Macintosh LAN |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: SB Live! supported?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:24:35 GMT
On Tue, 05 Sep 2000 17:08:38 GMT, Timothy Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello folks:
>
>I like to check with you because I am considering to buy Sound Blaster
>Live! Platnium sound card. Do Linux support that?
Yup.
http://how.to/sblive
and the drivers are at
http://opensource.creative.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/emu10k1/
I knew site for the s/pdif patch but I just tested it and the URL
is bogus. I've put a copy on my computer @
ftp://24.4.228.121/pub/emu10k1-oss-spdif.tar.gz patched driver
ftp://24.4.228.121/pub/bin-linux-redhat-dap-2.1.1.tgz mixer s/ s/pdif i/o
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Id Est)
Subject: "cat /proc/mtrr" doesn't display anything?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:42:46 GMT
AMD K6-2 3DNow! 400MHz, Gigabyte GA-5AX motherboard, 128MB RAM,
running 2.4-test7, kernel compiled with CONFIG_MK6 and CONFIG_MTRR.
given the above configuration, shouldn't "cat /proc/mtrr" show something?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Anybody want to collaborate on linux palmtop/slate/portable?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 18:37:48 GMT
Hi,
I am interested in collaborating with people
to bring about a Linux-based portable computer
kit. I don't want a palmtop but rather something
larger like a slate or a small laptop. This
project is supposed to be fun, without any
interest in making money. (It is very hard to
make money off of hardware anyway!).
This project is for all of us who would rather
make a new machine rather than modify something
that some company made and who would rather
*take part* in the design process than stand
idly by, waiting for something exciting. This is
a good idea I think and it is after all the
sentiment of Linux itself. The hardware designs
produced would naturally be GPL'd i.e. made free.
The design will be free, board designs will be
free, software will be free. All you will need
to be is buy parts, a generic case from Fry's
or Radio Shack, and build the thing.
I have set up a site with some ideas on it, at
http://linuxslate.tripod.com
Please feel free to visit it. I will add a
message board soon. Until then feel free to
post messages and ideas here or to respond via
email.
Thank you!
uwuh
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Michael Collins ())
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: synaptics touchpad
Date: 5 Sep 2000 19:17:56 GMT
>I understand the newest Kernel 2.2.16 has fixed
>the jumpy cursor problem on a synaptics touchpad.
>
>Some modification keyb_pc.c ???
>
>Any updates??
The Compaq and others Synaptics Touchpad
jumpy(horrible) mouse problem is not solved
in the 2.2.16 kernel. The Warren Delano
patch still can be applied to partially
fix the problem. Linux *is* usable on
these laptops running X, but it is a poor
system as the Mouse of all things does not
work properly. The kernel people know of
the problem and have for quite a while.
A fix has not happened yet.
I should fix it myself ;) I don't know the
first thing about re-writing kernels....
--Chris
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From: "Steve Kenealy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partition Magic
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 19:14:07 GMT
I am trying to use Partition magic on my drive in order to install Linux.
When I run PM it seems to be informing me that there is no space available
on drive C, although it is a 30Gig drive and I know I have at least 24
Gigabyte remaining.
On the GUI the drive is a plum colour, listed as "other" in the legend. I
believe that PM should allow me to use the window as a slider control to
adjust the sizes, but none of this reacts when I try to use it. Also, all of
the drop down menus are greyed out.
Any Ideas would be appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: APC brand UPS with apcupsd --> PANIC! Cannot talk to UPS
Date: 05 Sep 2000 15:21:14 -0400
Some people have replied asking if I've done the obvious:
Yes, I am using the special cable provided by APC. (This is different
than the standard serial cable.)
I've tried two different cables and two different UPSs and neither worked.
If anyone has apcupsd running, please let me know!
Thanks,
Richard
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From: "vpiercy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI modem as serial port isn't registering with Linux
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 14:30:26 -0500
Hi,
I've posted already about my modem problem. I think I have a motherboard
that won't allow Linux to configure the PCI modem correctly (Intel "Seattle"
SE440BX for Pentium II). Anyone hear of problems with this board?
When I type
cat /proc/pci
I find the same irq and port that Windows uses (successfully) with my
3-COM/USR controller-based PCI modem (model 3CP5610A). I try to use those
same values in a setserial command to initialize the modem but nothing
happens. Linux just returns a prompt.
I have come up with some diagnostic data. I seem to have two serial ports
but the PCI modem as serial port isn't registering with Linux. Why? The
00:0e.0 address that lspci lists for the modem looks strange. Is it o.k. or
not? Maybe someone can help me deduce what these Linux messages mean.
[root@localhost rc.d]# setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
/dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
[root@localhost rc.d]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge
(rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge (rev
02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0e.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01)
00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000 (rev
07)
00:10.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 07)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TNT 128 (rev 04)
[root@localhost rc.d]# wvdialconf pppvan
Scanning your serial ports for a modem.
Port Scan<*1>: Ignoring ttyS0 because /dev/mouse is a link to it.
ttyS1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- nothing.
Port Scan<*1>: S2 S3
Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program?
Did you configure it properly with setserial?
Please read the FAQ at http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/
If you still have problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----
Thanks!
Van
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bloomington, Indiana
USA
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From: "Ez-Aton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: what's up with Sun?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 22:51:36 +0200
Well, the first models of the IA-64 are on beta/alpha testings, as well as
M$ systems for them, so it will not be long, I believe.
Sun is better then Pee-Cee. It's a fact, but:
a) Part of the Sparc/Sparc ultra machines today include IDE drives, and ATI
video card, which reduces their price, but also decrease their performance.
b) Sparc, whatever Sparc you can think off, is yet very expensive. I'm
talking about Ultra and Netra, where their price can exceed the 10K$, 20K$
or even the 30K$, depands upon their configuration.
Both Intel and AMD should stick to the home-office computers, and leave the
servers to the real tough computers, since they will never reach the Sun
stability and power.
My oppinion.
Ez.
"Christopher Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:1%Xr5.330387$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when David Steuber would say:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin) writes:
> >
> >' One important difference between Sun and M$ is that Sun make hardware.
> >' They have less to lose in a world where software if Free.
> >
> >But they have a lot to loose where hardware becomes a commodity.
> >However, I think Sun, SGI, et al, can beat Intel for bang for the buck
> >if they continue to make servers that can beat large clusters of IA32
> >machines in terms of raw performance.
> >
> >Also, not all servers are doling out web pages.
> >
> >AMD and Intel are heading upmarket, and they have a lot of money and
> >a huge legacy hardware base to get them there.
>
> I _suppose_ that I2O _arguably_ represents the way for Intel to head
> "upmarket" by introducing functionality traditionally associated with
> mainframes to "Pee-Cee" hardware.
>
> It's "arguable" because it doesn't seem to have taken the world by
> storm.
>
> --> "Pee Cee hardware" is associated with being "cheap;" that
> generally leads to things like using enormous but slow IDE drives,
> and trying to share RAM with the video board.
>
> --> Drivers are needed, and the purported merit of I2O was that it
> would make for "portable, tuned" device drivers.
>
> Unfortunately, NDAs discourage participation amongst the free
> software community, and the "deaths" of so many Unixes in the wake
> of the oncoming IA-64 "train wreck" has not led to there being a
> "juggernaut" of I2O drivers demolishing all alternatives.
>
> There's a _potential_ for Intel to do very well on this, but it looks
> like they've squandered a whole lot of potential.
>
> Maybe there is a vast IA-64 juggernaut about to hit us; with the
> reports of upcoming "Pentium 4's" with _HUGE_ heat sinks and of IA-64
> boxes with immense heating capabilities, this does not appear to bode
> very well.
>
> It just doesn't look like Intel has stuff that is as readily scaled
> for Heavy Duty Processing as the stuff that Sun sells.
> --
> (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@" "ntlug.org")
> <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
> Perhaps there should be a new 'quantum' datatype; you would be able to
> take its address or value, but not both simultaneously.
> -- Michael Shields
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From: "Rene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 20:05:35 GMT
Hey guys hopefully you can help me out I just installed Mandrake 7.1 on my
notebook, and when I boot up it stops at "starting service pcmcia". I can
skip over it using Interactive Startup, but I have a nic card I need to use
to get on the internet. Any help will be appreciated.
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From: stahlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where can I find and Elsa Gladiac PCI video card?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:16:50 -0400
Where can I find an Elsa Gladiac PCI video card? I have an AGP version
but would also like a PCI version for a second frame buffer.
chris
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISO ?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:28:28 -0400
Martin Racette wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm using Mandrake 7.1, and I would like to burn some ISO files, but I
> can't find how to do that, I tried KISOCD, and XCDROAST, and I can't
> get them to write the files, it only write the ISO as a single file on
> the CD
>
Use cdrecord. See the man page for details. In general, should be
something like:
cdrecord speed=x dev=device# yourimage.iso
To find out the device# use (as root):
cdrecord -scanbus
MST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: multiport serial PCMCIA? Does it exist?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 20:36:38 GMT
I am looking for a multiport serial PCMCIA card, prefer something with
6 or 8 serial ports. Is there such a beast? I tried to search the web
and the best I can find is 4-port.
Thanks so much in advance!
Will
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ian Jeffray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: RICOH MP9060A CDRW only plays 3mins of audio in Linux
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 20:50:42 GMT
I'm using 2.2 kernels (just upgraded to 2.2.17 today too) and just can't get
the above IDE/ATAPI CDRW drive to play audio CDs properly. It's working fine
for data, however - and all perfectly fine in dualboot Win95.
I've now totally run out of ideas now - does anyone have any suggestions as
to what might be wrong - or other ways I might be able to tackle this?
Cheers,
Ian
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From: "Richard H. Reepe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.linux.sucks,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.madrake,alt.os.linux.mandrake,at.linux,es.comp.os.linux.misc,han.comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SupraMAX Modem Problems with Linux Mandrake
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 22:02:41 +0100
In article <8p15d3$bke$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>I'm having a problem detecting my SupraMax Internal PCI Modem. To my
>knowledge it is not a Winmodem so I dont know why it is giving me a problem.
>When I try to query it, it says it can't detect it.
>
>If anyone knows what could be wrong could you please post a followup or
>email me. It would be extremely helpful.
>
>Thank you.
>
>
Go to this site and check for your modem:
www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
The site indicates if your modem will work (green) or not (red) with
Linux. But I think you will be unlucky....
--
........Regards R2 (Richard H. Reepe)
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web-site: http://www.r2.org.uk
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Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 12:37:21 -0500
From: jimbo borders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: realaudio
for some reason ra will lock up netscpae and quite working. any ideas?
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From: stahlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: realaudio
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 17:16:36 -0400
Don't use it as a plugin
stahlee
jimbo borders wrote:
>
> for some reason ra will lock up netscpae and quite working. any ideas?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: what's up with Sun?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 13:47:43 -0700
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ez-Aton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:newscache$n8jf0g$k21$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Both Intel and AMD should stick to the home-office computers, and leave
the
> servers to the real tough computers, since they will never reach the Sun
> stability and power.
> My oppinion.
Better yet. Intel and AMD should stick to producing processors and let the
users determine how the computers built with their processors should be
used.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI modem as serial port isn't registering with Linux
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 22:01:37 GMT
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vpiercy wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi,
<p>I've posted already about my modem problem. I think I have a motherboard
<br>that won't allow Linux to configure the PCI modem correctly (Intel
"Seattle"
<br>SE440BX for Pentium II). Anyone hear of problems with this board?
<p>When I type
<p>cat /proc/pci
<p>I find the same irq and port that Windows uses (successfully) with my
<br>3-COM/USR controller-based PCI modem (model 3CP5610A). I try
to use those
<br>same values in a setserial command to initialize the modem but nothing
<br>happens. Linux just returns a prompt.
<p>I have come up with some diagnostic data. I seem to have two serial
ports
<br>but the PCI modem as serial port isn't registering with Linux.
Why? The
<br>00:0e.0 address that lspci lists for the modem looks strange.
Is it o.k. or
<br>not? Maybe someone can help me deduce what these Linux messages
mean.
<p>[root@localhost rc.d]# setserial -g /dev/ttyS*
<br>/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
<br>/dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
<br>/dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
<br>/dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
<p>[root@localhost rc.d]# lspci
<br>00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge
<br>(rev 02)
<br>00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX AGP bridge
(rev
<br>02)
<br>00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
<br>00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
<br>00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
<br>00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
<br>00:0e.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610
(rev 01)
<br>00:10.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000
(rev
<br>07)
<br>00:10.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 07)
<br>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TNT 128
(rev 04)
<p>[root@localhost rc.d]# wvdialconf pppvan
<br>Scanning your serial ports for a modem.
<p>Port Scan<*1>: Ignoring ttyS0 because /dev/mouse is a link to it.
<br>ttyS1<*1>: ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- ATQ0 V1 E1 -- nothing.
<br>Port Scan<*1>: S2 S3
<p>Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program?
<br>Did you configure it properly with setserial?
<p>Please read the FAQ at <a
href="http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/">http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial/</a>
<p>If you still have problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<p>----
<p>Thanks!
<p>Van
<p>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<br>Bloomington, Indiana
<br>USA</blockquote>
You need to exec:
<p><tt>lspci -v</tt><tt></tt>
<p>This will list "IRQ" and "I/O ports at". Yes the ec00 port address
is OK. Run "setserial" with the values from the above and "autoconfig"
and see it this works.
<p>I have a USR/3Com PCI modem and it worked fine after I put the proper
"setserial" command in my "rc.serial". You can also download the
new serial driver from:
<p> <a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/serial/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/serial/</a>
<p>This is not a patch, you can use it without rebuilding your Kernel.
With this driver you no longer need an "rc.serial" file.
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