WRT610N usb disk upgrade *#

I have a version 2 WRT610N dual band wireless/GB router. It has worked great. I use it as one of two backup drives for all of my home computers. The other drive is an IOMEGA 2TB network drive. BTW, it was just this week that I figured out how to get HD sony video etc. streaming without stutter, but that is another topic. I want to upgrade the drive to a 1TB and faster drive. My old drive is a lenovo/fujitsu 500GB 5400 RPM drive. It works great, but it is slower and I need more space. So the problem becomes a series of - buy new drive, format it, put in router, router doesn't recognize it. I tried this many times of the year and gave up. Yesterday I got a new Seagate 500GB 7200 RPM drive. I figured I would try it again and mistakenly backed up 400GB of data to it first (wasting time) only to have the router's web page 'can't recognize usb device.' Arghh. I have the latest firmware also. After searching, I can't find a list of supported drives. I can't keep going to the store and returning drives. I am on support now with linksys, on second person, on second 5 minute hold. I was just told that 'just to set expectations, you no longer have warranty support.' So now I am on hold again. I only want a list of drives that will work so I don't waste time and gasoline. I am wondering if I should consider upgrading routers completely, but that seems to be a waste also since the rest of the functions in the WRT610N work great.

I tried the KB site of Cisco and I found the list. Here's the link: List of Compatible HD and USB disk for WRT610Nv2.

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Performance of WRT610N (v1) with attached USB disk

Greetings, I've had my WRT610N for a while now and have had no complaints on performance. Over this past weekend, however, I attached a USB disk to it (cheaper than adding a NAS). I can mount it without problem on my Vista box, but it seems that when the disk is being accessed (read or write), I get severe performance degradation on my network connection. Severe enough to render the network unusable.
Is this to be expected? Is there a setting in the firmware that will prioritize network activity over disk activity?
The PCs in question are wired and the router is running the latest firmware (1.00.03.15). The disk (previously formatted on my computer) is NTFS. If there are any other pertinent pieces of information, please let me know.
Thanks.
Message Edited by msfeinstein on 10-05-2009 04:27 PM

Try reducing the MTU size to 1300 on the router's GUI and check if the problem resolve...If not then,try upgrading/reflashing the router's firmware and reconfigure it from the scratch....

WRT610N after firmware upgrade lost connection to USB storage en Twonky media server not working

Hi,
I had firmware 1.00.00.B18 running on my WRT610N. I had successfully connected a 1.5Tb USB disk to the router and The UPnP media server (Twonky Media server 4.4) was running OK. Except that the Media Server sometimes had problems with its license key.
I read somerwhere on this forum that a firmwareupgrade would help so I installed 1.00.03.B15.
Since then the router will not see my harddisk anymore and the media server also has vanished. Access thrue http://192.168.1.1:9000/ to the Twonky server shows now "page not found".
The 1.5Tb disk is FAT32 formatted. I tried a smaller USB disk and supprisingly that one is recognized by the router. I ran several Harddisk test and repair programs on the 1.5Tb and they show no faults.
The only thing I have not yet tried is resetting the router.
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I have followed the reset procedure but the situation stays the same.
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Can I watch iTunes-purchased movies from an Airport Extreme USB disk?

With the newest Airport firmware (7.6.1), it seems I should be able to do this.
My scenario is so basic, I can't understand why I'm having trouble achieving this.
- I have a MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.2 - since it's a laptop, I don't want to leave it on all the time.
- I have an AirPort Extreme with a USB disk on it (that I use for backing up my MacBook), recently upgraded to newest firmware 7.6.1.
- I have a recently purchased Apple TV hard-wired to the AirPort running firmware 4.4.4.
- I have purchased movies though iTunes on the MacBook Pro.
I want to watch my iTunes-purchased movies on my Apple TV even when my MacBook Pro is sleeping. That is, I would like the movies to be accessible via iCloud, or stored on the USB disk connected to AirPort Extreme, or something/anything.
It seems obvious to me that with an all-Apple set up, and iCloud, this should be easy to achieve.
What am I missing?
Thanks,
j

JasonFromSK wrote:
With the newest Airport firmware (7.6.1), it seems I should be able to do this.
Really? I need to check that out!
You should certainly be able to add content by reference to itunes from such a disk (even before the update) - so long as itunes knows the location of the file (set Preferences not to copy to local library when adding the media) it will stream it to AppleTV if the disk is available.
I hope you're right, but I'd be surprised if current Extremes can be upgarded to provide a full Home Sharing service - marvellous if they can but I'd be surprised as i've long said we need an Apple media server either based on TC or AE to do this kind of thing.
AC

Time Machine times-out on external USB disk, but works on 2 others

Hello,
I wanted to share my experience, in case it is helpful to someone else. It appears that one of my external hard disks has a hardware fault, or that TM is overly sensitive to its state, thus preventing me using it for backup.
After upgrading from Tiger to Leopard on my Macbook Pro 2.16GHz, I had been trying over the last couple of days, without success, to backup using Time Machine to an external USB hard disk at work. It is a Maxtor disk in a BlueEye U235 case. On each attempt to make the initial backup, TM would copy between 2 and 25GB of data (of 75 total) to the disk, and then stall indefinately, without giving an error. (Ejecting the disk at this point and restarting the computer just lead to further problems with completing the backup that I won't go into here). I tried many times, each time reformatting the disk (with the GUID partition map), deleting the TM preference file, restarting and ensuring all other apps were not running. I was completely fed-up!
I subsequently tried backing up for the first time on a freshly re-partitioned (GUID map) Firewire 400 external disk (Prolific PL3507 Combo Device in a BlueEye O2 case) at home, and this worked perfectly the first time, taking a couple of hours. (All applications were closed at the time). Subsequent backups to this drive work fine.
I tried again with the disk at work and it continued to fail. Finally I decided to follow what was being thrown up to the system.log. I discovered that shortly after TM was stalling (somewhere between 10 and 40 mins after commencing the backup), repeated messages would appear in system.log saying "kernel IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceType00::setPowerState(0x4cbe100, 2 -> 1) timed out after 100683 ms" (with the "2 - > 1" and number of ms different each time), with a few minutes between each one. This suggested to me that there was some sort of intermittent failure of the disk, or the connection between the Macbook Pro and the disk, or something I don't understand. It is worth keeping in mind that this disk has been working perfectly for me - I've been backup up entire system to it every couple of days using SuperDuper, without any errors or problems.
So, I then tried using a different (LaCie) Firewire disk at work, and after reformatting / partitioning (GUID map), the backup to this worked perfectly the first time, with the entire ~68 GB completing in about 2 hours. (As an aside, switching between the TM backup disks at Home and Work works well - TM just catches up from where it last left off on the particular drive).
The message I wanted to convey is that, in my experience, TM may fail during a backup (stall in fact, as no explicit message was generated) to a disk that outwardly appears to be fully functional. I'm not sure if in my case there is a minor error with the disk, a fault with TM, or both. Interestingly, upon bringing the disk home today and switching it on it won't mount at all, on my computer or that of my partner. I'm not sure if the problems with TM were therefore indicative of imminent disk failure, or whether the trip home in the pannier on my bike has damaged the drive . So, if you're having this or some other difficulty, on a drive that you haven't purchased new, it may be worth considering that an unsuccessful TM backup may be due to a current, or imminent, problem with the disk.
Just my two cents worth.

Yes, I think you have a good point. The motivation for my post was just to make people aware - as there seems to be many people having problems with TM - that maybe the first drive you try, particularly if it is not new, may not work and that it is worth trying another if you can. Particularly in light of the fact that I didn't receive any explicit error messages, that is other than the one in the system.log file.
The USB disk was powered separately and was plugged directly into one of my USB ports (not via a hub). At the same time a USB mouse was plugged in. I think it is USB 2, but I'm not sure, and as it is not working now, I don't know how to check.
The rate at which data is copied to the two drives that work (via Firewire 400) seemed to be quite similar to the rate for the USB drive, until it bombed out.

My Airport disconnects randomly when USB disk is attached..HELP NEEDED !!!!

My Airport Extreme disconnects randomly when USB disk is attached, I have searched this forum but found now obvious solution.
The Airport Extreme has the latest firmware.
Since the airdisk solution is quite useless at this time, I would kindly accept any kind of help .....thanks
Sieber

Len61 got my reply, I have copied below.
Hi - I have been on the phone with support 4X since late December - all good calls. They have been scratching their heads on this issue.
I have 2 printers and 2 drives on the airport -recent experieinces = printers have always behaved, drives have appeared / vanished / "drive needs repair" and it's just fine...
Cutting out the interim fixes, here are the simple but important solutions and everything has been stable for days now.
* rolled back to AEBS firmware 7.1.1
* replaced the passive USB hub with a powered hub ** This is when joy arrived
* make sure your drive has a block size of 512
You can run guest mode however you want, since adding the new hub, it hasn't mattered.
I haven't been brave enough to upgrade firmware to 7.2.1
cheers

ExFAT external usb disk not working in Lion?

Hi, I used to be able to read/write to an external usb disk, exFAT formatted, using Snow Leopard.
Since upgrading to Lion I can't seem to be able to find the disk anymore on the desktop/finder. When I go into Disk Utility it sees it but thats pretty much all it will do. Anyone knows of this issue or how to fix it?
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It isn't well supported by Microsoft. The problem on Apple hardware is you can't even make changes to the BIOS boot manager.
I have 4 internal hard drives so it is rather easy to boot from one hard drive and run the installer.
You ran into the lack of support for UEFI though which adds another layer and meant most likely having to alter and reburn the ISO to disc with Imgburn or something (and can be done from Windows only so you need a VM).
I got tired of the trouble and work arounds needed though and in the end I just built my own custom PCs - one of which has native eSATA that are bootable (an Intel DX58SO board).
Oh, and it is easy to install Windows 7 on PC, then just move the drive into Mac Pro and boot from there!

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Hi all,
I have bought an Airport Extreme 1GBit some time ago. I've connected a 500gb IOMega USB disk and all works fine. Installing the last firmware upgrade, the system become unstable, randomly disconnecting disk and avoiding reconnecting with a message that sounds like "Incorrect password".
I have tried some workarounds and continued using the system, setting up various accounts per user (a function available in last AirPort firmware updates).
This system create some folders in the disk: one folder shared with all users (with a name that cannot be changed), and one folder "per user", named with the account name (a personal "Home" folder in the USB disk).
Now, I have installed Leopard and the connection problems seems to be partially resolved, 'couse users can correctly see and access to the shared folder but cannot see the USB disk Home folders.
But... from Windows (XP and Vista) users can see and access this folders!
Any idea?
Bye,
Stefano
PS: sorry for my bad english

It's possible that it might be the hub or one of the USB cables that you are using. Have you tried removing the hub and just connecting the hard drive directly to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) to see if the problem goes away? If so, did it go away?

USB Disks Drives that don't show up in AEBS

USB Disks Drives that down show up in AEBS
NOTE: This thread is about drives that are not seen / recognized by the Apple Airport Express Base Station 802.11n (AEBS) when attached to the USB port of the AEBS. Drives that are not seen by the computer, but are seen by the AEBS should go in another thread.
I know some of us are having problems getting out USB hard drives to work with the AEBS. If you launch the airport utility and manage your AEBS but your drive does NOT show up under the disk tab.
I know it’s not a formatting problem so I assume this is a hardware related issue. There has to be a common flaw in out drives
I have a Seagate Momentous 7200.3 installed in a generic USB enclosure. I figure the problem is because of…
1) A Generic Chipset
2) It’s USB Powered (not externally powered)
By going into the System Profiler (Apple • About this Mac • more info) and if I click on the drive name under USB I get the following details
1) It draws 500 mA
2) Transfers 480 Mb/s
3) Product ID 0x6390
4) Vendor ID 0x058f
Right now it’s formatted using a Journaled HFS+ file system
It would be great if other users of the AEBS could report information about any drives that do not show up in the AEBS.
Thanks
Mac mini 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Neither my LaCie 500 Gb or my Crossfire 250 Gb (both externally powered) show up in the AEBSn. Both of them appeared in the AEBSn for a couple of weeks. The only change I can think of is that I upgraded to 10.4.9.
I've done all the resets, but the AEBSn just cannot identify them.
I put a call into AppleCare this evening, but the Level 1 guy knew less than I did. I'm waiting for a callback from AppleCare. If I hear anything I'll put it in the forum.
My guess from the HD/AEBSn problems in the forums here is that there is a bug, which with time our good friends at Apple will iron out.
Shame, because I bought the AEBSn because of Airdisk, but I'm bowled over by its speed and range.

WRT610n USB Access

Hi.
I just installed a LinkSYS WRT610N and it works very well on my DELL desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate. I didn’t bother with LELA, though I may try it later.
I installed firmware 1.00.03 B15 using the router itself.
I plugged in a 1gb USB flash drive, and I cannot seem to access it.
I let the WRT610N Format Disk, and then created a share partition called linksysusb. Under that there is a /public directory. The admin has read and write privileges for /public.
Under the Media Server tab, I have UpnP Media Serve Disabled, and NO Auto Scan.
Under the FTP Server tab, I have FTP Server and Internet Access disabled. The Server Name is WRT610N and the Workgroup Name is linksys.
(I have tried this with and wihout ZoneAlarm up.)
What have I done wrong, and what would I have to do on my DELL to be able to see a file called /public on the router’s USB? Would I see /public in Explorer?
Thanks,
MG...
Message Edited by Mike Green10 on 02-20-2010 12:17 PM

Hi. Just to be sure we are on the same page:
Using Windows Explorer, I right click on "Network", then I select "Map A Network Drive", then I enter "\\192.168.1.1\linksysusb" in response to "What Network Folder Would You Like To Map". This is where I get the "Enter Network Password to connect to 192.168.1.1" message box. This is where I'm stuck.
Your last post says "Open the router setup page as you can and create a new user and password for the storage.." Is this implying that the WRT610N requires a special password for the USB storage above and beyond the "admin" password? I cannot find where to enter a specific Password for the USB storage.
Perhaps I'm missing something that is obvious. Do I have to set up a Workgroup? Will it require a Password, and is this possibly the "Network Password" in question?
Yikes, I seem to be going nowhere. Thanks for your patience. Every bit of advice helps.
MG...

GNOME, nautilus, devicekit-disks: mount USB disk

Hi,
I recently upgraded and have now nautlius 2.28.2-1 together with devicekit-disks 009-1 installed.
As usual mounting/unmounting USB disks in nautilus stopped working. I searched the wiki, forums, bugs and google to gather information about this topic, but you know ...
When I try to mount a disk (they all show up in nautilus) nautilus pops up an error declaring me "Not Authorized". After quite some reading I think nautilus now uses devicekit-disks to actually mount my USB disks, so I tried to mount it with devicekit-disks:
[resi@nomad ~]$ devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdc
Mount failed: Not Authorized
In older versions of nautilus I used to edit some files in /etc to grant myself permissions (PolicyKit.conf), but this does not work anymore.
I found a hint and edited /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy (this one is coming with devicekit-disks) and modified the default for the actions org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount action:
<allow_any>yes</allow_any>
Having done so I can now mount the USB disks using nautilus, devicekit-disks or palimpsest (suffering from the same "Not Authorized" problem). Unmounting has a little flaw though, it seems like nautilus tries to eject the medium when unmounting, but then again its "Not Authorized" to do so.
However, this is the only solution I could come up with. Since the file I modified will probably be replaced without notice during the next upgrade I fear I will have to go all the way again, not remembering anymore what I did to fix this (otoh, after writing this I probably will).
And since the values in org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy are declared as defaults (and by the fact it lives under /usr) I assume there has to be a site configuration file somewhere in /etc.
Where should I but my customizations? I mean, whats the proper way to do so?
Thanks,
Christoph
P.S.: I like nautilus, it makes me unhappy to use thunar/pmount/whatever to mount my disks.

me again ... this whole *kit stuff seems so odd to me.
I finally read all the devicekit, then the policykit docs, Syu-ed and have now devicekit-disks 009-3 installed.
Using polkit-actions without arguments prints a list of registered actions (known to policykit). This list was pretty short:
[resi@nomad ~]$ polkit-action
org.freedesktop.policykit.read
org.freedesktop.policykit.revoke
org.freedesktop.policykit.grant
org.freedesktop.policykit.modify-defaults
PolicyKit considers all *.policy files under /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/, only the policykit package installs its files (well, its one file) there.
devicekit-disks (and probably some other packages providing *.policy files) seems to forget about that. So I added a symlink:
[root@nomad policy]# ln -s /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/
Thats not enough, the file seems to be out of date. I had to replace all auth_admin_keep defaults with auth_admin_keep_session until the file validated.
And hurray:
[resi@nomad ~]$ polkit-action
org.freedesktop.policykit.read
org.freedesktop.policykit.revoke
org.freedesktop.policykit.grant
org.freedesktop.policykit.modify-defaults
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount-system-internal
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-check
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-check-system-internal
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-unmount-others
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-lsof
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-lsof-system-internal
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.drive-eject
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.drive-detach
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.change
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.change-system-internal
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.drive-ata-smart-refresh
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.drive-ata-smart-selftest
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.drive-ata-smart-retrieve-historical-data
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.luks-unlock
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.luks-lock-others
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.linux-md
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.cancel-job-others
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.inhibit-polling
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.drive-set-spindown
polkit-auth shows my authorizations, thus:
[resi@nomad ~]$ polkit-auth | grep mount
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount-system-internal
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-unmount-others
It seems to me that I am authorized for all actions listed above, I guess thats because this user is in both the wheel and root groups.
However, when I try to actually mount something nothing has changed.
[resi@nomad ~]$ devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdc
Mount failed: Not Authorized
Since policykit is now properly configured I can use polkit-action or polkit-gnome-authorization to modify the default values in the way polkit expects me to (not tampering with with the *.policy files).
[resi@nomad ~]$ polkit-action --action org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount
action_id: org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount
description: Mount a device
message: Authentication is required to mount the device
default_any: yes (factory default: no)
default_inactive: yes (factory default: no)
default_active: yes
But even now mounting fails because I'm not authorized.
Back to the start, if I change the factory defaults in org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy mounting succeeds.
I think there might be 2 bugs involved here:
1.) missing links to policy files in /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/
2.) policykit fails to consider overrides for factory defaults
What do you think?

USB disk access of every type is hosed - HELP!?

Newbie with the very latest "Don't Panic" running on a laptop. I'm coming off a year with various bloateddistros, looking for something fast and stable.
I've got my internal drive up, networking, x, gnome and openoffice all working great. Next step is to plug in my external 160gig drive with all my data on it. This is a very standard USB2-to-EIDE drive, I've had no problems with it in any distro. It's split between a 32gig FAT32 partition and a 119gig Ext3.
I followed the wiki on autofs. Nothing. Then played with HAL and the like. Made my user a member of group "storage". Still nothing.
I've seen mount problems before of course, so I tried adding gparted via pacman and running that from a root command line just to see what's physically out there. Not good: gparted never finishes getting past the "Scanning all devices....." process with the blue bar bouncing back and forth. When gparted first starts I can hear the external disk spin up and chug for a few seconds, but then nothing.
I tried a 1gig USB flash critter (probably Fat32), nothing there either. I think something is fundamentally hosed in my USB disk support. I do have a USB external trackball working though...so my ports are up.
My daemons at present:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond ntpd hal cups gdm alunnd)
Heeeelp! Neeeed my daaaata!
Wait, something else weird: if I turn on the external disk I see some CPU activity on my gnome panel monitor. Nothing major, a few light spikes. I've got a Celeron 1.6 but with the new 533 memory bus and 2gigs RAM. Once I run gparted it goes bananas and then once I close gparted CPU activity is pegged hard at 100% - yet there's no listed process eating that. Then when I turn off the external drive, CPU activity falls back to normal.
WTF, over?
Jim

Well before reading Veek's post I got further along. Almost there I think.
I went and loaded XFCE4 plus extras, and logged in with a XFCE session. I like having a backup desktop environment anyways in case Gnome gets squirrelly.
In XFCE Thunar shows the disks, but when I try and access 'em I get:
Failed to mount "128G Volume".
(exo-mount:4613): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
Using the fallback 'C' locale.
You are not privileged to mount the volume "128G Volume".
What I can't figure out is, what permissions? I'm added to groups "storage" and "disks"...any more needed?
The output from fdisk -l:
bash-3.2$ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 19457 156288321 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1 3824 30716217 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb6 3825 19457 125572041 83 Linux
bash-3.2$
I'm going to jump back to Gnome and try Veek's concepts...

How to control DE USB disk Automounts.

Hi,
Can someone please guide me as to how to 'control' Automounts by DE when we plug USB disk drives.
I have KDE4 on my Arch system. When I connect a pen drive/USB HDD which is formatted as vfat/NTFS, the system(or KDE) 'Automounts' it in /media and I have read/write access to it. But if I use the same drive and format it as ext4, it wont be mounted as read/write for normal users but only for root.
Now pen drives and USB HDD's are removable storage drives and hence are volatile and could not have a fixed mount point, so it cannot be mounted by putting an entry in fstab or could they?. And I need my USB HDD frequently, and manually mounting it through CLI everytime and working on it as root is a bad idea i guess.
I am posting this because m confused as to how to control this Automount feature-What is the backend to it? Because I've read that HAL no longer takes care of it and that HAL will be deprecated soon, instead UDEV takes care of it. If that is the case then should I be concerned about polkit? Because that is what's the output provided by Dolphin(freedesktop.org policy prevented blah blah).
Another thing is if HAL is still in use and Automounts my devices then is it independent or polkit is a part of it. Then, is using hal-easy an option or replacement to standard HAL. ??!!??
I tried HAL archwiki and used the code to give a user permission to give rw access to automounted ext filesystems, but then nothing is mounted, it sings the same old freedesktop.org prevented bla blah song. And I think this is a question for all linuxes using Gnome and KDE in general.
Any help is appreciated.

If by 'ability to mount as user' you mean to mount it manually but read/write access to normal users then yes. But primarily I need automounting as user, also be able to give access to other users for read/write et filesystem automounts.
Last edited by kapz (2009-11-17 01:12:56)

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