Linux-Hardware Digest #709, Volume #13 Wed, 11 Oct 00 11:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Adaptec AHA 1510A pod linuxem ("Piotr Chabowski")
Re: canon bjc 250 ("Tage V. Madsen")
Re: Zip scsi card (mst)
PCMCIA Card Advice ("=PS=Zorlac")
Re: Video Capture (Wesley Hosking)
Re: isapnp.conf deleted accidently (Mile Davidovic)
Re: cm8330 install (Mile Davidovic)
linux kernel unable to identify harddisk disk cache ("Alastair Tse")
Re: Which motherboad for a dual-PIII linux system? ("william")
Lilo won't boot windows - 1st active drive is hde
Drive Order (two drives) ("Michael")
Re: Getting ATA 100 IDE drive to work with Mandrake 7.1 ("BloodRed")
Mandrake 7.1 on an i815E board? ("BloodRed")
Re: Drive Order (two drives) ("BloodRed")
Widescreen Graphics Card Support ("Ross Walker")
Re: Lilo won't boot windows - 1st active drive is hde (mst)
GA-6VXD7 anyone? ("Paul S. Aspinwall")
Help Me Please !!! I've problem whit Sound Blaster Live! ("Paolo")
Re: Drive Order (two drives) ("Michael")
Re: IDE-SCSI woes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Piotr Chabowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec AHA 1510A pod linuxem
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:39:02 +0200
Czy kto� instalowa� kontroler SCSI Adapteca AHA 1510A pod linuxem??
--
Pozdrowienia
Piotr Chabowski
Administrator Sieci
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From: "Tage V. Madsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: canon bjc 250
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:51:20 +0200
It works with the 100/200/210/240 filter available from printtool
(printtool is RedHat only, I think), _except_ that I haven't found a way
to make it print in color, does anyone know how to do that?????
Other than that, I think it is a pretty good printer, at least considering
the price.
-Tage V. Madsen
Christophe Beljouani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if the canon bjc 250 works fine with linux ? also, is
> it a good printer ?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Christophe
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip scsi card
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:10:26 -0400
Remi Ricard wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My zip SCSI drive came with a "scsi card" do you know if this card is
> well supported
> in linux ? (really small card and I do not know the brand I was in the
> same box as the
> internal scsi zip drive)
>
> Can a attach another scsi drive to this card (CD-RW) ?
>
I think the card is aha1520 compatible; you probably can attach other
devices to it, but you won't be able to boot from an attached device
(such as HD), because it doesn't have a bios.
MST
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From: "=PS=Zorlac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA Card Advice
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:15:39 +0100
Hi all
I`m after a PCMCIA card, with 10/100BaseT and a v90 modem that will work
under Redhat 6.2. Any preferences from anyone? I have a Xircom 10BaseT/33.6k
card which works, but I need more speed :) 3Com any good? And no, I dont
want to mess around with WinModem beta drivers... I want something that
works out of the box.:)
Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
(I have asked this question twice before over the last few months or so, but
I didnt get any sensible answers back... all I got was "dont use model xxx"
or "I have a xxx and its crap" and the whole thread decended into slagging
products off.... and I still didnt get an answer to my original question.
Sorry, but if you dont have a card that you **CAN** recommend, please dont
reply...)
--
Steve
=================================================
Steve Loughran, Network Infrastructure Manager
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (Cambridge)
Yamaha YZF1000R Thunderace, ICQ#: 12666311
Team Waste - Where do you want to go wrong today?
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Subject: Re: Video Capture
From: Wesley Hosking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Oct 2000 10:11:20 +0930
Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello all,
>
> I am looking for a video capture solution for linux (redhat). My
> company is doing motion capture stuff and would like to use a linux
> os.
>
> What we need is a 15/30 frames per second capture card that can
> capture raw (RGB) data and dump it onto the video texture memory. We
> don't need it to dump onto disk. Any associated API's/SDK (C/C++)
> would be required also.
>
The v4l linux API, is at :
http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml
and I have some pointers to Frame grabbing for Linux at :
http://www.atlantek.com.au/USERS/wes/linux/frame/
Hopefully they will help,
Most of the drivers available will allow you DMA directly
to the Display Video memory. The API allows you to specify the address
that the card is at and offsets, etc (if you are root - otherwise
it believes the PCI probing addresses ). You could probably use this feature
to DMA directly into where the texture maps are on the card.
(The X11 XV (Xfree 4.0.1 ) has something a bit more fitted towards
doing this directly from X windows...).
(I have looked at doing something similar with our card directly to
a Matrox card, which allows scaling of the video... - I didn't do
much further investigation of texture maps - ended up going right back to
DMA directly to the screen - our card has 4 Video inputs, which is
getting borderline as regards PCI bandwidth... ).
good luck,
wes
> If anyone can direct me to the right resources for accomplishing this,
> you have my thanks in advance.
>
> thanks all.
>
> Man.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mile Davidovic)
Subject: Re: isapnp.conf deleted accidently
Date: 11 Oct 2000 12:40:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In RH:
isapnp >> isapnp.conf
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:51:42 GMT, Siukong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hi there,
>
> Dummy V got a new trouble recently.
>
> I accidently deleted isapnp.conf and isapnp.conf.bak. well, it
>affected my system by that the sound system still worked fine but i
>couldn't configure the sound setting by neither setup nor sndconfig
>anymore. everytime i tried these programs and after it probed the sound
>chip and ready to stepped further, the program crashed. everytime.
> and one more thing, everytime i listened to mp3 and then closed the
>xmms, the cpu power was still mostly busy, which is abnormal to my
>system. i guessed it's the problem of the resource management related to
>isapnp.
>
> is there any command that i can generate the isapnp.conf file again.
>because the sound still works fine, i believe that the isapnp setting is
>still in some part of the system. if not, any better idea you guys could
>advice me?
>
>Dummy V
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mile Davidovic)
Subject: Re: cm8330 install
Date: 11 Oct 2000 12:40:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have same sound card and use same distro.
Unfortunately on some motherboards this sound card not work well, on others
work well I do not know whay.
Solutions this problem is next:
put in conf.modules:
=========cut here ================
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
alias sound sb
=========cut here ================
put in isapnp.conf
============== cut here ============
(READPORT 0x0203)
#(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(ISOLATE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
#(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
(CONFLICT (IO WARNING)(IRQ WARNING)(DMA WARNING)(MEM WARNING)) # or WARNING
(VERIFYLD N)
# WSS
#(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 0
#(IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0530))
#(IO 1 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0388))
#(INT 0 (IRQ 7 (MODE +E)))
#(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
#(NAME "CMI0001/16777472[0]{CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter}")
#(ACT Y)
#))
# Control device ?
#(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 1
#(IO 0 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
#(INT 0 (IRQ 7 (MODE +E)))
#(NAME "CMI0001/16777472[1]{CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter}")
#(ACT Y)
#))
# Joystick
#(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 2
#(IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0200))
#(NAME "CMI0001/16777472[2]{CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter}")
#(ACT Y)
#))
# SB...
(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 3
(IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
(NAME "CMI0001/16777472[3]{CMI8330/C3D Audio Adapter}")
(ACT Y)
))
(WAITFORKEY)
=================== cut here ===================
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:20:16 +0200, Avi Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i'm trying to install my onboard c-media cm8330 on red hat 6.2. sndconfig
>autodetects the card but when it tests it there is no sound. when i manually
>put in the settings the voice test gives me static and the mpu401 test tells
>me it timed out. can anybody help me?
>
>
>
>
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From: "Alastair Tse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux kernel unable to identify harddisk disk cache
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:50:27 GMT
Hi..
I was wondering if anyone has the same problem as me. Currently my
hardware is :
Sony Vaio PCG-N505VE
Toshiba MK6412 6.4G IDE HD (w/ 512KB Cache)
Onboard Controller from Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev1)
And I'm running :
RedHat 7.0
Linux Kernel 2.2.16-22
One day I booted up an noticed that it says that my HD has no disk cache
at all :
Oct 8 13:41:37 mcvaio kernel: hda: TOSHIBA MK6412MAT, ATA DISK drive
Oct 8 13:41:37 mcvaio kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Oct 8 13:41:37 mcvaio kernel: hda: TOSHIBA MK6412MAT, 6194MB w/0kB Cache,
CHS=789/255/63
So then I went on to investigate why that is, since on Toshiba's
Homepage, it says that this harddisk has 512KB disk cache. So I ran :
$ /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Model=TOSHIBA MK6412MAT, FwRev=K2.10 B, SerialNo=89M39766P
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=13424/15/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=46
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=0kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=13424/15/63, CurSects=-1854930751, LBA=yes, LBAsects=12685680
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2
It says that the Buffer Type is unknown, and thus the buffersize is 0KB.
Is this a hardware incompatibility with the linux kernel for toshiba
harddisks or maybe it's a bug ? I've checked on my desktop that has an
IBM HD and the buffer type is "3(DualPortCache)".
FYI, This is the dump of the IDE controller version from /proc/pci :
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0xfc90 [0xfc91].
If you can help me, thanks alot !!
Alastair Tse.
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From: "william" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which motherboad for a dual-PIII linux system?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 05:59:10 -0700
check out this link at toms hardware:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q3/000911/index.html
"D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jay Norwood wrote:
> >
> > Have you actually tried an S2510?
> > Jay
> >
> > "Mark Slicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:8qtoff$l0m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I would recommend Tyan S2510. On this page
> > > http://www.compute-aid.com/rack1u.html, there is
> > > a link about that board.
> > >
>
> I would suggest almost anything that is NOT an i840 chipset. It has
> IO-APIC problems.
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Subject: Lilo won't boot windows - 1st active drive is hde
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:55:29 -0400
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I just installed a new 40 gig Maxtor hard drive and an adaptor card and now when
I try to start Windows from Lilo, I just get "starting dos" and nothing happens
until I reboot. Linux starts up just fine. I have three drives installed.
The first on the board is not active, the second is on the card and is
active and then the third on the card which has Linux. This is what I have for a
setup:
IDE Info
========
Mother Board IDE
================
hda drive which does not have an active primary partition
hdb CDROM
hdc CDR
hdd nothing connected
Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 PCI Adaptor Card
====================================
hde drive with first partion active, i.e., bootable ("C" in Win98SE)
hdf nothing connected
hdg drive with Linux installed, root at hdg9
hdf nothing connected
This is what I have tried for Lilo:
boot = /dev/hde
timeout = 50
compact
linear
message = /boot/message
default = dos
ramdisk = 4096
vga = 6
append = "mem=128m,hdc=ide-scsi,hdd=ide-cd,ether=0,0,0x16,eth0"
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.0-test9.img
root = /dev/hdg9
read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = linux
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0-test8
label = old
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15
label = oldest-2.2.15
other = /dev/hde1
label = dos
loader = /boot/chain.b
table=/dev/hde
For the time being I've modified my autoexec.bat and config.sys to boot Linux
using Loadlin. Windows starts just fine with this too, but I'd prefer to use
Lilo.
Thanks,
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Drive Order (two drives)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:12:03 -0500
I'm getting a newer Hard drive today and was wondering if it matters which
drive is first.
New drive: Maxtor DiamondMaxPlus ATA/100 32GB
Promise Ultra100 controller card
This one is for Win98
Old drive: Maxtor DiamondMaxPlus ATA/33 10.2GB
This one for Linux Mandrake 7.0
Do they need to be on seperate channels?
Will the 33 slow down the 100?
Being as win98 wants to be on first drive, can I put LILO on the ATA/100
drive with a boot partition. If so hw do I set one up?
Thanks Michael
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From: "BloodRed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Getting ATA 100 IDE drive to work with Mandrake 7.1
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:21:38 GMT
I've got a CUSL2 that has an ATA100 channel on it. When I run the 7.1 setup
I can see the drive and format the partitions. I can install all the
packages, but my video causes an error every damn time. When I try to boot
into Linux, "LI" pops up on the screen and it locks. I can't even get into
Linux via the boot disk. I get the same error. Could this have anything to
do with the ATA100 channel?
-BR
"Roy Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a new ABIT KT7-Raid motherboard, with a Highpoint 370 ATA
> chipset, a 30 gig IBM deskstar ATA100 7200 RPM drive, a 700Mhz Duron,
> and a one-disc version of Mandrake 7.1 from Maximum Linux magazine.
>
> When I attempted to install, it appeared to go without a hitch (no error
> messages), and grub was successfully installed. But, when I tried to
> boot, Linux gives up, saying it can't find the root disk (Kernel panic).
>
> So, I got the Mandrake update of the 2.2.16-9 kernel source from their
> update mirrors. I tried to apply the patch from the Highpoint web site
> (ide.2.2.16.20000630.patch.bz2) to this code (on another computer), but
> I got a lot of errors, and the resulting code would not compile.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on what I need to do to fix this? Do I have to
> wait for 2.4 kernel or Mandrake 7.2? Windoze seems to handle the ATA100
> drive just fine!!
>
> Thanks
> Roy
>
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From: "BloodRed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.1 on an i815E board?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:06:49 GMT
Is there any problem with this combo? When I try to boot into LM 7.1, all I
get is "LI" on the screen. I went through the help docs and found this:
****
LI
The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader,
but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a geometry
mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer
Same as above. Running /sbin/lilo should help.
****
Ok, what does that mean and how do I fix it? How can I run /sbin/lilo if I
can't get into the OS? I get the same error when I try to use my boot disk.
What's a geometry mismatch? It's installed on a 15GB WD ATA66 harddrive,
that's the primary slave on it's channel. The master is a 20GB Maxtor that
I'm using to run Win98(Hey, I need my games alright..). Does anyone have any
idea what's up? Thanks.
-BR
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From: "BloodRed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drive Order (two drives)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:10:49 GMT
I'm not sure about the order, but that ATA33 drive will slow down the 100
if they're on the same channel. Both devices will run at the speed of the
slowest device on the IDE channel, so the 100 will only run at 33. I just
took my ATA33 harddrive off of the IDE channel that my ATA66 HDD is on, and
it sped up noticibly.
-BR
"Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm getting a newer Hard drive today and was wondering if it matters which
> drive is first.
>
> New drive: Maxtor DiamondMaxPlus ATA/100 32GB
> Promise Ultra100 controller card
> This one is for Win98
>
> Old drive: Maxtor DiamondMaxPlus ATA/33 10.2GB
> This one for Linux Mandrake 7.0
>
> Do they need to be on seperate channels?
> Will the 33 slow down the 100?
>
> Being as win98 wants to be on first drive, can I put LILO on the ATA/100
> drive with a boot partition. If so hw do I set one up?
> Thanks Michael
>
>
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From: "Ross Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Widescreen Graphics Card Support
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:15:37 +0100
Does anybody know what graphics cards support widescreen resolutions under
linux and XFree86 V4. That is 1920 x 1200 resolution. I am planning to buy
a machine to run on a widescreen monitor and don't know what graphics card
to buy.
I plan to use Redhat Linux v7.0 with XFree86 v4 (the one included with
Redhat 7).
Any help / suggestions - especially from people that have widescreen running
would be greatly appreciated.
Ross.
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo won't boot windows - 1st active drive is hde
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:22:47 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (snip!)
> other = /dev/hde1
> label = dos
> loader = /boot/chain.b
> table=/dev/hde
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Looks like you're missing a couple of spaces here - i.e. "table =
/dev/hde"
MST
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From: "Paul S. Aspinwall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GA-6VXD7 anyone?
Date: 11 Oct 2000 14:25:22 GMT
Has anyone tried linux on a Gigabyte GA-6VXD7 motherboard yet?
--
Paul S. Aspinwall email: psa@(NOSPAM)cgtp.duke.edu
Dept of Mathematics
and Physics
Duke University
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From: "Paolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help Me Please !!! I've problem whit Sound Blaster Live!
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:48:45 +0200
Hi,
I've installed on my Pc Linux-Mandrake and WinLinux 200, and my Sound
Blaster Live! doesn't work. I tried the open-source drivers, but anithing.
Please Help Me !! Thank you.
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drive Order (two drives)
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:27:25 -0500
Thanks Much for the help
"BloodRed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Jx_E5.1061$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm not sure about the order, but that ATA33 drive will slow down the 100
> if they're on the same channel. Both devices will run at the speed of the
> slowest device on the IDE channel, so the 100 will only run at 33. I
just
> took my ATA33 harddrive off of the IDE channel that my ATA66 HDD is on,
and
> it sped up noticibly.
>
> -BR
>
> "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I'm getting a newer Hard drive today and was wondering if it matters
which
> > drive is first.
> >
> > New drive: Maxtor DiamondMaxPlus ATA/100 32GB
> > Promise Ultra100 controller card
> > This one is for Win98
> >
> > Old drive: Maxtor DiamondMaxPlus ATA/33 10.2GB
> > This one for Linux Mandrake 7.0
> >
> > Do they need to be on seperate channels?
> > Will the 33 slow down the 100?
> >
> > Being as win98 wants to be on first drive, can I put LILO on the ATA/100
> > drive with a boot partition. If so hw do I set one up?
> > Thanks Michael
> >
> >
>
>
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Subject: Re: IDE-SCSI woes
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Oct 2000 17:01:39 +0200
Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Siukong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ok, i think i've taken one step further that i "rerun" the lilo
> > already and then rebooted my system. am i supposed to use mount
> > /dev/scd0 to access my cdrw? i tried but failed. did i use the wrong
> > command? or there is any more configuration to complete?
Try to read this article - i think i will give you all the answers you
need:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue57/feenberg.html
Regards
Karsten Jensen
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