Linux-Hardware Digest #393, Volume #14 Sat, 24 Feb 01 11:13:05 EST
Contents:
Anyone using a HP SCANJET 5200C ?????? ("John Christian Engelsen")
HP Deskjet 812C in Linux (Jason Noble)
chassis mount mem card readers?? (Martin Brown)
Re: Anyone using a HP SCANJET 5200C ?????? (Drew Roedersheimer)
Strange things happen when reading from CD-ROM (Christoph Groth)
USR modem in Red Hat 7.0 ("Edward Stammer")
Re: NetGear FA310TX (Tim Lyth)
Re: NetGear FA310TX (Tim Lyth)
Re: Netgear FA311 and nvidia drivers ("Simon Cope")
ATI Rage Fury (Studenten FR)
Re: Conexant HCF Modem Driver? ("Rinaldo Bergamini")
Conexant Soft56k linmodem how? ("Rinaldo Bergamini")
Re: ATI Rage Fury (RogerB)
Distinctive Ring ("Ken Rambler")
Re: Distinctive Ring (Dean Thompson)
Trident 9660 (Miguel Rosales)
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? (Rod Smith)
Re: redhat 7 scsi issues (lada)
Re: Abit SA6R RAID & RedHat -> do you think it would work????
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? (John Thompson)
Re: Forwarding sound to X terminal?? (John Thompson)
Re: Sound Blaster 16 only works as root ("Greg H.")
3com 900B-combo (Erik Beckhaus)
Re: where can I buy a pc that is guaranteed Linux compatible? ("Edmund Mitchell")
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From: "John Christian Engelsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone using a HP SCANJET 5200C ??????
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:52:59 +0100
HI !
I have a HP scanjet 5200C, which I wanna uswe with linux, but I don' know if
its worth all the trouble trying to fix....
I've tried once before and then i gave up.......
Is there for instance any good software available ??
Mvh
John Christian Engelsen
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From: Jason Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: HP Deskjet 812C in Linux
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 10:22:01 GMT
I have an HP Deskjet 812C I am trying to setup under Red Hat 6.1 I
prints fine under Windows, but Linux will not detect the lp port. I
have inserted the line "alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc" to
/etc/conf.modules and run "modprobe lp" as root, but printtool still
will not detect the lp port. Is there something else I need to do? I
had it printing once before, so I know it will work. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Jason B. Noble
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Subject: chassis mount mem card readers??
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Brown)
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:03:50 GMT
I see that SanDisk has readers for compact flash (CF), multimedia (MMC),
and smartmedia (SMC?). Problem is, all of these readers are external,
except for the pc card interface and the floppy disk-shaped adapter.
This is somewhat explained by the fact that the readers use parallel or
USB interfaces.
I'm looking for a chassis mount reader, preferrably 3.5", in any standard
mem card format that Linux can deal with. It would also be nice if it
worked with and could be easily be made to work with magicdev.
Any ideas?
Can Linux read/write Sony memory sticks? If so, is there a chassis mount
reader for them?
Thank you for any suggestions.
--
- Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Roedersheimer)
Subject: Re: Anyone using a HP SCANJET 5200C ??????
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:08:45 GMT
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:52:59 +0100, John Christian Engelsen wrote:
>HI !
>
>I have a HP scanjet 5200C, which I wanna uswe with linux, but I don' know if
>its worth all the trouble trying to fix....
>I've tried once before and then i gave up.......
>
>Is there for instance any good software available ??
>
>Mvh
>
>John Christian Engelsen
>
>
I have a HP scanjet 6200c - using USB with no troubles at all. Try sane...
AFAIK, the real question is the interface that the scanner uses. If it's
a USB scanner (like mine), try checking out http://www.linux-usb.org/
HTH
-DR
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From: Christoph Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange things happen when reading from CD-ROM
Date: 24 Feb 2001 12:33:29 +0100
Hello all,
My box is a PC with an EPoX 8KTA2 and a Duron 700, a Matrox Millennium
II PCI and a Gravius Ultrasound PnP (ISA). It is running Debian 2.2r2
(Kernel 2.2.17).
The IDE-Devices connected to it are:
hda: Traxdata CDRW2260+, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6002B, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
hdd: SAMSUNG WU32163A (2.16GB), ATA DISK drive
I am quite happy with this machine except for one thing:
Whenever the CD-drives are accessed in some way (reading, burning) at
least two strange effects happen:
1) Sound played at 44kHz becomes noisy and literally slows down.
Sound played at 22kHz or less isn't affected.
2) When connected to an ISP with the 56k external serial modem,
massive communication problems appear. E.g. ping doesn't work (it
simply ceases to produce any output). As soon as the CD-ROM access
stops, everything works again.
Surprisingly the problem doesn't occur with the HDDs, only with the
CD-ROM-drives.
I have tried changing the IDE-cable, exchanging master and slave,
changing the BIOS-settings but the problem is still there. What can I
do? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks is advance,
Christoph
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From: "Edward Stammer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USR modem in Red Hat 7.0
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:42:38 GMT
I have an US Robotics 5610A build 0778 (hardware controlled) modem that is
not
recognized in Linux kernel 2.2.16. I understand this modem is not supposed
to work in any Linux kernel less than 2.3, however, several people have told
me they have seen them work in kernel 2.2 and lower.
When checking this modem in WINDOZE ME, it is reported to be on COM 5.
Never seen a modem that puts itself out that far. I can find the controller
for the modem in Linux, using lspci, but it does not report it as a modem.
I have tried the AUTO CONFIG in GNOME, and in KDE, but it does not find the
modem. I am willing to write, or rewrite code, but need to know what to
write, since I am not a programmer, and new to LINUX. I love the LINUX
operating system so far, but without a modem, I am stuck dual booting with
WINDOZE.
I would appreciate any advice on how to set this modem up. I have been to
several sites, and read what they have there, but nothing specific to my
problem shows up.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stuck on a WINDOZE machine.
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From: Tim Lyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: NetGear FA310TX
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:46:34 GMT
Me again.
I've managed to get the card to load properly, but I can't connect to the
outside world.
Fortunately, my knowledge of computers and (fortunately??) my knolwedge of how
windoze works plus some inquiring when booted under RH7, has lead me to realise
that the reason why I can't connect out is that I haven't got the routing stuff
correct. Unforunately, I would have to say that there is little that you guys
to help me with now.
Thanx anyway.
Cheers,
Tim Lyth
p.s. After I posted the original message, I then decided to have another read of
the linux documentation. That helped me.
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From: Tim Lyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: NetGear FA310TX
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:52:34 GMT
> It is possible that the problem is that you are not properly assigning an IP to it.
>Did you give it a static IP, or do you need to get a DHCP IP with something like
>dhcpcd or pump (can't help you with that)?
Yeah, my ip address is assigned by dhcp.
I hadn't read all the replies till I sent my second message.
I use netconf to edit the network settings, set the adapter to DHCP and I get an
error message saying something about IP initialisation failure, but I don't get
any error messages when I specify to manually set the IP.
Any ideas? Fart-arse around with the route table?
Cheers,
Tim Lyth
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From: "Simon Cope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 and nvidia drivers
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 20:09:35 +0800
Can someone please send me the 2.4 drivers for the fa311 network card.
I have spent tooooo many days playing with the re-compiling of the fa311
drivers for RedHat 7.0 and it is a pain in the neck. I used the natsemi
drivers, but that was no good either. I may be doing something wrong
though, as I am new to Linux.
My email address to send the driver to if somebody could send it is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
Simon Cope.
"Alim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9733rp$a99$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there
>
> Does anybody know how to get the Netgear FA311 fast ethernet card up and
> running using the 2.4 kernel?
>
> Also, my GeForce 2 GTS always starts XFree86 in a bizarre way for the
first
> time... the desktop is displayed thin and tall threee times across the
> screen with a weird refresh rate. I have to exit and restart XFree86 for
it
> to work properly.
>
> Thanks
> alim
>
>
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From: Studenten FR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: be.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: ATI Rage Fury
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:40:28 +0100
Hello,
I'm having trouble getting a
ATI Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro
videocard up and running on a linux (RH6.0) system of a friend of mine.
I think it's a rather new videocard, so it is highly likely that it's
not supported yet by XFree86. Does anyone have any suggestions or does
anyone know of a Xserver for this card ???
Thanks,
bino
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From: "Rinaldo Bergamini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Conexant HCF Modem Driver?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:47:00 GMT
I'm trying to configure a winmodem under Mandrake 7.2 . The card is a PCI
Conexant (ex Rockwell) soft56k HSF modem. Some people report that with
the "driver" (Kernel module) provided by Olitech
(http://www.olitec.com/pub/PCI_56K_V2_K2.2.17.tar.gz) and kernel
2.2.17 the modem works fine, so I downloaded this tarball, expanded
it under the root dir, get into the cerated dir and launched
./ins_all. An error occurred: unable to open "lin_hsf.inf" but this
file is in the directory, what should I do?
In the dir there is an executable called "inf2bin". I launched it
with the requested parameters (inf2bin lin_hsf.inf lin_hsf.bin)
but another error occurred saying that my country and the one of
the file anren't equal.
What should I do?
Thanks a lot
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From: "Rinaldo Bergamini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Conexant Soft56k linmodem how?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 12:47:34 GMT
I'm trying to configure a winmodem under Mandrake 7.2 . The card is a PCI
Conexant (ex Rockwell) soft56k HSF modem. Some people report that with
the "driver" (Kernel module) provided by Olitech
(http://www.olitec.com/pub/PCI_56K_V2_K2.2.17.tar.gz) and kernel
2.2.17 the modem works fine, so I downloaded this tarball, expanded
it under the root dir, get into the cerated dir and launched
./ins_all. An error occurred: unable to open "lin_hsf.inf" but this
file is in the directory, what should I do?
In the dir there is an executable called "inf2bin". I launched it
with the requested parameters (inf2bin lin_hsf.inf lin_hsf.bin)
but another error occurred saying that my country and the one of
the file anren't equal.
What should I do?
Thanks a lot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RogerB)
Crossposted-To: be.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:39:42 GMT
If your using version 3.3.3 it won't work, but with 3.3.6 svga driver
should work OK.With version 4 of X it uses r128_drv.O. Try using XF86Setup to
get it running.
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:40:28 +0100, Studenten FR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm having trouble getting a
>
>ATI Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro
>
>videocard up and running on a linux (RH6.0) system of a friend of mine.
>I think it's a rather new videocard, so it is highly likely that it's
>not supported yet by XFree86. Does anyone have any suggestions or does
>anyone know of a Xserver for this card ???
>
>Thanks,
>
>bino
>
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From: "Ken Rambler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,de.alt.comm.mgetty,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Distinctive Ring
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:01:54 GMT
US Robotics 56K Sportster Modem, Model 5686
This modem is reported to support distinctive ring mode. Had anyone had
success using this feature with mgetty to answer on a normal ring only and
NOT on a distinctive ring type call?
For those that might not have distinctive ring service in their area, this
feature is provided by the local telephone company to alter the ring style
on two phone numbers connected to one line. A long ring (normal) designates
a call on one number (say a fax or data call) and two short rings on a
different number (same line) for voice calls.
Thanks!
Ken
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,de.alt.comm.mgetty,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Re: Distinctive Ring
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 01:12:30 +1100
Hi Ken,
> This modem is reported to support distinctive ring mode. Had anyone had
> success using this feature with mgetty to answer on a normal ring only and
> NOT on a distinctive ring type call?
I think this is going to boil down to the fact that the modem may not actually
know how to respond to the second ring other than to give the standard Hayes
response of RING. Do you know whether or not your modem can differentiate
between the rings in its hardware because from memory I think mgetty works off
the basis of looking for a "RING" singal to be sent to the computer from the
modem.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: Miguel Rosales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trident 9660
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:10:03 -0300
Hi @ll
I have one pci video card Trident 9660 (2MB), so in RH7 the
xconfigurator cann't fire up X with my options 1024x768 16 bit, this say
that I have error's in my setup, my monitor is a Compaq V55 and
xcofigurator it recognizes. so the question is someone have any idea?
-Miguel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:29:52 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Windgassen wrote:
>>
>>That's not the whole truth (in my opinion:-): these are environments within
>>Linux and OS/2 that allow you to run Windows executables, i.e. _individual_
>>programs. This is pretty different from running a whole operating system, e.g.
>>including task, memory and filesystem management.
>
> You're right about the Windows on Linux.
> Windows 3.11 on OS/2 though... hard to tell, you may be right there too.
> I ran OS/2 Warp when it first came out and I could run several program managers
> at once, or pop over to an entire full screen Windows, all while OS/2 was running.
> Sure does a great job fooling the user into believing Windows is really
> running there.
That's because Windows 3.1/3.11 wasn't an OS; it was a GUI environment
with some OS-like features. It didn't include filesystems, for instance;
that was provided by the underlying OS (usually DOS, but in an OS/2
environment, OS/2).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: lada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 7 scsi issues
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 07:43:07 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have 1 VXA tape backup robot connected to it (properly terminated)
>
> aborting command due to timeout: pid 0 scsi 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
> scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 trying harder
> Inquirt 00 00 00 ff 00 scsi host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out. resetting
>
I had a similar problem. I recommend to use a kernel patch from
.. kernel/people/alan/
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit SA6R RAID & RedHat -> do you think it would work????
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:30:11 -0000
I cannot say for certain, but the HPT370 chipset apparently does not work
with Linux. I just built 4 dual processor boxes with 1 Gig RAM each on
the VP6 motherboard. I was planning on running Linux 7.0 on them with
RAID 0 (just for extra speed). When I started to install Linux, I got to
the point where the software was trying to look for the drives, and the
install could not find any writable media. So, no, I don't think that
Linux 7.0 will install and work with RAID enabled.
Look at this site, very bottom of the page and notice that the patch does
not work for RAID - http://www.highpoint-tech.com/370drivers.htm.
Also, look here: http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispreport.cgi?DISP?2745
Just go to a search engine (like dogpile.com) and type in Linux HPT370.
You'll find lots of stuff.
Paul
kuba p. wrote:
>
>
> I'am planning to buy an ABIT SA6R motherboard with ATA 100 RAID
controller.
> Do you think that it would work with RedHat 7.0?
> I am planning to use hardware RAID1.
>
> thanks,
>
> Kuba
>
>
>
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 07:15:27 -0600
Rob Windgassen wrote:
> That's not the whole truth (in my opinion:-): these are environments within
> Linux and OS/2 that allow you to run Windows executables, i.e. _individual_
> programs. This is pretty different from running a whole operating system, e.g.
> including task, memory and filesystem management.
Actually, OS/2 can run any real-mode x86 operating system in a
virtual machine. I have an OS/2 machine with DR-DOS, MS-DOS
v2.11, MS-DOS v3.1 and MS-DOS v6.2 running is spearate virtual
machines. This does carry a peformance penalty, however, and by
default OS/2 will use it's emulated DOS environment to run DOS
programs.
IIRC, linux' DOSEMU environment similarly provides a virtual
real-mode x86 machine for a DOS operating system. VMware does a
similar thing in providing a protected-mode 80x86 virtual
environment.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Forwarding sound to X terminal??
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 07:21:26 -0600
Dan Smith wrote:
> I have a big server and a couple X terminals (that are just small, less powerful
>PCs). I want to be able to listen to at least simple sounds (other than just a
>console bell) on the X terminals.
>
> How can I do this?
I don't think sound is considered part of the X protocol. There
may external programs that can redirect sound to a remote machine
but I've never seen one.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Greg H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 only works as root
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:46:48 GMT
Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I have just reinstalled Slackware 7.1, everything is mostly ok,
> but my sound blaster 16 card only works as root. There must be some
> simple way to fix it ..... please help guys.
> I am using 2.2.18 kernel.
You need to enable the global write permission on /dev/audio (and
often /dev/dsp). You can also add users to the same group that these
belong to.
I think this is covered in the Slackware FAQ that's posted to this
newsgroup at least once per month.
Greg
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From: Erik Beckhaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3com 900B-combo
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 16:51:05 +0100
Hello NG,
I have a Pentium 250 (tuned) running with Susi's (SUsE) linux 7.0.
Everything runs fine except for the 3com 900b-combo PCI-ethernet
adaptor. The Suse-help-database just tells me, that this hardware is
critical.
Fine, I found out about that myself (ha,ha).
Has anyone ever managed to get that thing going ?
Does anyone know where I can get a driver for it that works ?
Please Help !
Thanx,
Erik.
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From: "Edmund Mitchell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where can I buy a pc that is guaranteed Linux compatible?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 11:01:13 -0500
"summerland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> First off,I checked with dell,and their webpage has
> "some" puters listed,but "none" of the ones with
> Linux,I kept getting a 404 error code.I tried a few web pages
> like(www.linux.org),etc.But all I have seen
> is small companies that I have never heard of,I would actually be quiet
> content to purchase a pc that is guaranted
> to be close to 100%.I recently aqcuired a computer that when I tried to
> install Mandrake verion 6(i beleive)
> damn near drove me nuts ,seriously,over half of the hardare was
> incompatible<gggggrrr>I dont mind a bit of a
> challenge but changing 50% of the harware would cost me close to how
> much i payed for the computer,(damn
> crappy winmodems).....Heh......and you should of had seen my screen
> resolution.PLEASE!!any suggestions
> would be greatly appreciated ,Thanks allot folks.
>
This link to Dell worked for me:
http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/topics/linux_000_hardsol.htm
It is a god place to start shopping for a Dell system with RH 7.
IBM also has offerings, but I think just servers, thin clients, and
notebooks:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/software/alliances/linux/systems.html#Linux
These are more expensive than building your own, but if you want a
guarantee...
HTH
Edmund
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