Linux-Hardware Digest #209, Volume #14 Sat, 20 Jan 01 18:13:05 EST
Contents:
slow printing with hp lj100 and redhat 7.0 (richard noel fell)
Asus K7M Audio Configuration Needed (Youngert)
New Hardware Site ("Leonid Medovyy")
drivers for linksys etherfast 10/100 ("Robert")
powerspec 1660 as linux machine (graham)
GeForce 2 and FIC AZ11 M/B (Mark Dickie)
Re: drivers for linksys etherfast 10/100 (Bit Twister)
zip drives on linux (Ding de Villa)
RH Linux 7.0 machine reboots when shutting down. (mc)
Re: zip drives on linux (Tony Curtis)
HELP!!Only the L appears in LILO ("bindou")
Is USB keyboard supported by Redhat 6.2 ("MAHMUD, MOHAMMAD SAKIF ")
Microstar 694-D PRO AIR + Redhat Linux7 - ATA100 (Tomas)
Help 2 !!hub.c port1 over current change ("bindou")
Re: CISCO 675 Modem (piggy)
Re: RH Linux 7.0 machine reboots when shutting down. (Dances With Crows)
Re: Promise Ultra100 and kernel 2.2.14-5.0 (Glen Sanft)
Re: es1370 - where is the sequencer/midi driver ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Athlon 800 with AZZA MB Problems (bob)
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From: richard noel fell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: slow printing with hp lj100 and redhat 7.0
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:22:11 -0500
I have just purchased a lj100 which I use with redhat 7.0. However, the
printer seems to print just one page at a time, that is, it receives the
data for one page, prints that, receives the data for the second page,
prints that, etc. Is there anyway of altering this behavior? Is this
endemic to all laser printers on linux systems?
Clearly, operating this way, the printer prints at much slower than
advertised speeds.
Thanks for any comments and advice,
Dick Fell
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From: Youngert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Asus K7M Audio Configuration Needed
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.mic
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:57:50 GMT
Hi,
I am wondering if anyone out there has a success effort in configuring the
audio (SoundBlanster Pro) system on an Asus K7M mobo. When I have added
`append="sb=0x220,5,1"' included in the /etc/lilo.conf, the system keeps
complaining with the following messages when I do a login with KDE2:
Jan 20 12:56:36 toba kernel: Sound Blaster: DSP command(48) timeout.
Jan 20 12:56:36 toba kernel: Sound Blaster: unable to start DAC.
Jan 20 12:56:36 toba kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config
error?
Jan 20 12:56:37 toba kernel: Sound Blaster: DSP command(40) timeout.
Jan 20 12:56:37 toba kernel: Sound Blaster: DSP command(d1) timeout.
Jan 20 12:56:37 toba kernel: Sound Blaster: DSP command(48) timeout.
Jan 20 12:56:37 toba kernel: Sound Blaster: unable to start DAC.
If I took out the `append="sb=0x220,5,1"' line in the /etc/lilo.conf, the
login is fine with the login audio, too. However, in either case I can't
get the rosegarden to play a midi file.
I certainly will appreciate anyone who has successfully configured his/her
Linux system with the Asus K7M audio. TIA.
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From: "Leonid Medovyy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.es.hackers.hardware,microsoft.public.es.windows98.hardware,north.hardware,viwa.hardware,yu.comp.hardware
Subject: New Hardware Site
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:51:33 GMT
I am in process of developing new hardware site, and I am looking for a
people that would like to participate in the development.
The site I am developing will be specializing in hardware and may be
software that things normal people can buy (we're not going to have a review
of $10,000,00 SGI workstations :).
So far I've finished site design, and registered a domain name
(www.hardwareqa.com).
Our development team consists of five people (including me).
If you are interested please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or even
better contact me on icq (102833994).
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From: "Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: drivers for linksys etherfast 10/100
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 12:48:12 -1200
Has anyone had anyluck with the Linksys Etherfast 10/100 PC Card for any
version of linux. i downloaded the source from Linksys and the newest tulip
drivers but I have not had anyluck... Has anyone had any luck with this
card? I have two of these cards and don't want to but might have to go buy
a 3Com. I have also seen soho cards that say they work with linux. Has
anyone tried these?
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Subject: powerspec 1660 as linux machine
From: graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:07:01 -0500
Hi
I recently got given a PowerSpec 1660 PC. By today's standard it's a little
underspecced (1 Gig drive, 16Meg of memory), but I have managed to get
RedHat Linux 6.2 up and running on it, as well as get it connected to an
ethernet via a network card in it. I even managed to get Gnome to run by
guessing the right video settings for the X11 setup.
Now what I want to do is to upgrade this machine a little to use it as a
webserver (for about 5 people), and as a network router. To do this I need
more memory, another hard drive, and another network card. I have talked to
Microcenter (who make this machine) and it seems I can get the memory no
problems. But beyond helping me with the memory they are essentially
useless. I need to know answers to the following questions and was hoping
some Linux person could help me out:
a) can this machine support 2 drives and 2 ethernet cards (are there
enough slots/ports?). I think so just looking at the spec sheet, but I
am not sure (at present I have one ethernet card plugged into the modem
slot, so I should be able to use the other PCI slot for the second card
...).
b) how big an EIDE drive can the second internal drive be? Microcenter
weren't sure, but guessed at 6Gig. Anyone know the correct number? Also
will any EIDE drive do the trick, or does it have to have a specific
thickness, etc?
c) I guess I need an ethernet card that plugs into the PCI bus slot. Any
suggestions for this. A Linksys 10-100 card seems a good bet ...
Any help would be greatly appreciated since Microcenter's people know
nothing, and this seems like a workable solution for my needs.
thanks
graham
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From: Mark Dickie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GeForce 2 and FIC AZ11 M/B
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:01:08 +0000
Hello,
I'm having trouble with my motherboard as it doesn't boot with a GeForce 2
GTS card. I upgraded to this from my old Voodoo 3 3500, which worked fine
in the same slot in the same board. I have had both the card and the board
checked and also had the GeForce exchanged to no effect. I'm just
wondering if anyone else has had the same problem, I'm going to change the
board if no one can suggest anything but as I'm a student I'd rather use
the FIC board. Someone said something about noise on cheap AGP busses and
the GeForce needing a very clean signal. Does anyone know anything about
this?
Thanks
--
========
Mark Dickie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ#82716937
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: drivers for linksys etherfast 10/100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:27:05 GMT
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 12:48:12 -1200, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone had anyluck with the Linksys Etherfast 10/100 PC Card for any
>version of linux. i downloaded the source from Linksys and the newest tulip
>drivers but I have not had anyluck... Has anyone had any luck with this
>card? I have two of these cards and don't want to but might have to go buy
>a 3Com. I have also seen soho cards that say they work with linux. Has
>anyone tried these?
>
Running 5 of them on four boxes.
Worked on Mandrake out of the box no compile.
Turned off pnp os in the bios.
Used linuxconf to set module name for second nic.
did not supply io/irq info.
--
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If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: Ding de Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: zip drives on linux
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 04:47:40 +0800
ive finally gotten linux on my system and all my hardware is working
except for my zip drive. . is there a driver out there? help!
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From: mc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH Linux 7.0 machine reboots when shutting down.
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:48:04 GMT
Hello,
I have a Gateway G6-350 dual booting (W98/RH Linux 7.0) through System
Commander. Shutting down the machine from W98 works fine (the machine
is shut down and turned off). Attempting to shutdown from Linux only
reboots the machine.
My suspicion is IRQ conflicts, and more specifically, RH Linux 7.0
handling of them. Otherwise this would be a hardware
only/OS-independent problem, and W98 would have the same problem
shutting down.
Anyone has experienced this or knows where I should look?
Thanks!
MC
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: zip drives on linux
Date: 20 Jan 2001 14:54:40 -0600
>> On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 04:47:40 +0800,
>> Ding de Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> ive finally gotten linux on my system and all my
> hardware is working except for my zip drive. . is there
> a driver out there? help!
SCSI or parallel? Either way, have you read
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html
??
hth
t
--
Eih bennek, eih blavek.
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From: "bindou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: HELP!!Only the L appears in LILO
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 00:52:48 -0800
Help!.
I have installed linux redhat 7.0 on a computer running windows me an i get
the following problem when i restart the computer:
only L appears when booting and the screen freeze.
i have installed it on a primary slave disk.
Note that the computer does not have a primary master disk
Also i have tried to modify the lilo.conf found in by removing linear and
putting lba32,but when i type lilo it gives the following warning:
/dev/hdb is not the first disk.
I have also tried to copy the boot.b and map file from the linux boot floppy
but without results.
Any help please as i cannot even boot on the Windows System
Rgds
Jbk
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From: "MAHMUD, MOHAMMAD SAKIF " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is USB keyboard supported by Redhat 6.2
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:58:34 -0600
Please let me know if USB keyboard supported by Redhat 6.2?
Thanks,
Mohammad
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From: Tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar,linux.redhat.install,redhat.general,redhat.servers.general
Subject: Microstar 694-D PRO AIR + Redhat Linux7 - ATA100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:23:00 GMT
Hi Guys,
Has anybody successfully installed Redhat Linux7 on a system with
Microstar 694-D PRO AIR, motherboard using the ATA100 connectors with
the FastTrak100-Lite RAID controller?
I have a new system setup were I reach problem installing Redhat7,
during the disk identifications at boot.
I have 4 Maxtor 80GB disks installed, master/slave on the ATA100-1
(third IDE connector) and ATA100-2 (fourt IDE connector). The IDE1
connector is used only to handle my CD-ROM, IDE2 is not in use.
Any help is very appreciated.
Best, Tomas
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From: "bindou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Help 2 !!hub.c port1 over current change
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 01:07:04 -0800
Help!
I installed linux 7.0 redhat and in addtion to the L only appearing without
the ILO, get the following probelm when i boot using the linux boot disk:
the messaage hub.c port1 over currenct change KeeP coming in the text mode
login .it does not howver(thank god) appear in the x windows. However i
cannot login in the text mode as they are swamped by this message over and
over again. I tried to reinstall linux without any success ( both the L and
hub.c problem were intact).
rgds
jbk
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From: piggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CISCO 675 Modem
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:05:32 -0600
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:19:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Jeff Andre wrote:
>>
>> CS Reddy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> : I have a CISCO 675 ADSL External Modem connected to my RJ-45 type NIC. I
>> : have dual boot system (NT4.0 and RH Linux 7.0). I am using DSL services with
>> : this modem with NT and it works fine. However, RH Linux is not detecting
>> : this device. The vendor says it is compatible with Linux. Can some one point
>> : me in the right direction? Thanks....
>>
>> Did you set the Linux system to use DHCP? If not, try that.
>
>Likely you need to set up PPPoE as well. Never did that with Linux
>though.
>
>It is not a matter of modem compatibility or detection, but of network
>configuration likely needing an extra layer. What you need depends on
>your ADSL network and your ISP.
>
>
>Thomas
What mode is your 675 operating in? If you're connected in RFC1483 bridge
mode, don't worry about it. The unit looks like a cable connection between
your NIC and your ISP. One way to tell if is your ISP has assigned you a
'permanent' IP address inside of their netblock.
My setup is exactly like that, and it works without any problems at all.
Heck, I don't even have to worry about the Cisco 675 Commander being up to
use it.
Hope this helps a little.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: RH Linux 7.0 machine reboots when shutting down.
Date: 20 Jan 2001 22:19:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:48:04 GMT, mc staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>I have a Gateway G6-350 dual booting (W98/RH Linux 7.0) through System
>Commander. Shutting down the machine from W98 works fine (the machine
>is shut down and turned off). Attempting to shutdown from Linux only
>reboots the machine.
>
>My suspicion is IRQ conflicts, and more specifically, RH Linux 7.0
>handling of them.
Are you sure that "shutdown" is being called with the -h option? Try
"shutdown -h" from the command line as root, and if that shuts the
machine down while your normal shutdown procedure makes it reboot, then
your normal procedure is calling "shutdown -r" or its equivalent.
If that's not the problem, please tell me, what do IRQs have to do with
the APM standards for shutting a machine down? Check
/usr/src/$KERNELVERSION/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c if you think there's a
problem with the disabling/enabling of IRQs in the code....
Or build a new kernel, and in the options for APM, say Y to "Use real
mode to power off". There are a number of br0ken APM BIOSes where this
option is required for the machine to actually shut down.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Glen Sanft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100 and kernel 2.2.14-5.0
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:26:53 GMT
Nat Goodspeed wrote:
>
> I have a 1997 Gateway 2000 P133 that I want to convert to a Linux
> server. For that purpose, I bought, and had the store install, a 27GB
> Maxtor drive as a second drive. There's still a 2GB disk on the onboard
> controller as the primary drive.
>
> The store told me that the (controller? BIOS?) was too old to be able to
> utilize the full capacity of the new drive, and that I'd need a new
> controller. So now I have a Promise Ultra100 controller, to which the
> new drive is connected. This worked fine under Win95, but of course I
> wasn't interested in using it with Win95.
>
> I installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 from the CD. It installed fine, but to my
> distress, it wasn't even aware of the existence of the bigger drive.
>
> I have not been able to empirically confirm the existence of Promise
> tech support. So far they've ignored three e-mail messages, two to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and one to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And when I
> called the tech support number (during the stated hours of operation) it
> rang and rang with no answer whatsoever.
>
> The store, of course, knows nothing about Linux, and doesn't want to.
>
> I'm a Linux newbie. I can handle a CD install, and have tinkered with a
> previous Linux system, but frankly I'm daunted by the prospect of
> patching/rebuilding/reinstalling the kernel.
>
> I've reviewed all 67 recent comp.os.linux.hardware posts that mention
> the Ultra100 -- twice. I've tentatively concluded that for the 2.2.14
> kernel, although I would need a patch to run the drive at UDMA 100
> speed, it should *work* to just notify the vanilla kernel of the port
> addresses -- just slower than what the hardware is theoretically capable
> of achieving. But to tell the truth, I'd plug it into the onboard IDE
> controller if I thought I could access the drive that way! Again,
> though, the store led me to believe otherwise.
I'm using a much older box and a 15 GB UDMA 66 hard drive worked just fine
on the on-board interface. I've installed a Maxtor (Promise) UDMA 100
controller and it (the controller) would not work until I patched the
kernel.
>
> Anyway, I tried rebooting the initial install with override parameters
> at the lilo: prompt:
>
> linux ide2=0xfff0,0xffe6
>
> -- based on the first two I/O addresses shown under the controller's
> /proc/pci entry, as noted earlier in this group. I was pleased that this
> override did allow the kernel to "see" the controller and the drive --
> although I couldn't mount it; at that point the drive was still
> formatted as FAT16.
>
> But this encouraged me to rerun the CD install, using the same
> parameter-override line at the boot: prompt. The graphical server-style
> install apparently formatted the big drive, and I think selected it as
> the drive to use for the / filesystem. But when it had finished
> installing the default set of .rpm packages from the CD, the installer
> just hung.
>
> I reran the install with the same override, just in case it was a fluke
> -- but no, it hung again at the same point.
>
> Then I thought: well, the install's just about over anyway, maybe I can
> boot normally from here? But when I do, this is what I get on the
> screen:
>
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
> hde: [PTBL] [3330/255/63] hde1 hde2 < hde5 hde6 hde7 >
> <<<This last is encouraging to me because again, the installer
> obviously saw and formatted the drive.>>>
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 03:08: rw=0, want=2, limit=0
> dev 03:08 blksize=1024 blocknr=1 sector=2 size=1024 count=1
03:08 is /dev/hda partition 8, which it doesn't appear you have, /dev/hde
is 33:XX
> EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 03:08: rw=0, want=33, limit=0
> dev 03:08 blksize=1024 blocknr=32 sector=64 size=1024 count=1
> isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:08, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:08
>
> I tried rebooting again, specifying the same ide2 override as earlier,
> but produced the same kernel panic.
>
> I'm distressed that I've gone from a functional Linux system that
> ignores most of my disk space, to one that no longer boots at all. I
> would be happy to defer optimizing the disk access speed for later, if I
> could just USE it!
>
> Is it essential to patch (or upgrade) the kernel to get past this point,
> or is there something else I can tweak that would let me get by? Thank
> you for your help.
I'd use the on-board interface until you get a feel for Linux, and then
patch the kernel and use the higher-speed interface. You'll probably do
well to leave any ATAPI CDROM's and/or LS120's and/or ZIPXXX's on the
on-board controller when it's all said and done.
Glen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: es1370 - where is the sequencer/midi driver ?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:44:23 GMT
Hello,
I have one more question - regarding the MIDI-out functionality. You
wrote that this is done in software - I don't understand. Why would a
MIDI soundcard need software to send MIDI events out of the card (on
midi out) ? I thought that all you need is a program that writes MIDI
events to the card, and then the card should forward the MIDI events to
a sound module, for example.
>From what I read about timidity, this program actually plays MIDI events
- so that would be audio out, not MIDI out. I thought that the es1370
driver would provide at least two devices - MIDI in and MIDI out.
Could you explain that ?
Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Martin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:54:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into
the
> Black Sun and said:
> >I have an es1370-based Ensoniq PCI sound card (actually made by
Ensoniq,
> >not the PCI128 model). It is supposed to support midi in/out and full
> >duplex. No on-board synth, though. Linux (Debian) provides a driver
for
> >that device - es1370.o. I installed that, as well as the sound.o.
> >Soundcore.o is loaded based on dependencies.
> >
> >When I try 'cat /dev/sndstat', it says that none of the available
> >devices is present : synth, sequencer, midi - nothing.
>
> The ES1370 and 1371 do not have a /dev/sndstat , even if the cards are
> working perfectly. This was apparently the result of some funkiness
at
> the driver level and/or small incompatabilities between the drivers
for
> the cards and the rest of the cards that support the kernel's generic
> OSS sound model. What can you, eh? (No, I'm not going to rewrite the
> modules. Driver programming is not my bag of tea.)
>
> >I understand the lack of synth - the board cannot do that. But
shouldn't
> >there be a device (in /dev) for midi in/out at least ?
>
> MIDI out for the 1371 (and possibly the 1370) is done in software. I
> think you'll want to look for "timidity" on http://freshmeat.net/ .
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us
to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin'
Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
>
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From: bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Athlon 800 with AZZA MB Problems
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:06:40 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am having probelms loading RH 6.2 on a new AZZA MB with an AMD Athlon
800 CPU. The software installs fine, the boot disk works fine but when
I reboot the machine I get a kernel panic. Something about a syncing
failure. The place where I bought the box said that the BIOS needs to
be changed for the OS. It is setup for Win 95/98/2000.
Any clues.
Bob
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