Kernel Panic

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Fri Mar 4 12:25:33 UTC 2005


David S. Cole wrote:
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> I have a machine that has been running fine for several months and all 
> of a sudden it won’t boot with the following error:
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> 8b 35 00 b0 34 c0 b8 00 f0
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> <0> Kernel Panic: Fatal exception in interrupt
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>       In interrupt handle – Not Syncing
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> It’s running Fedora Core 2.6.5-1.350
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> The disk drive is an IBM drive and I have run the IBM drive fitness test 
> in full test mode and it finds no errors.
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> I have run memtest86 and it finds no errors.
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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> Dave
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After replacing 200 to 300 IBM/Hitachi drives and also using the drive 
fitness tools to test these drives, I would say the tests do not test 
the drive very well. Most of the drives could pass the tests, but fail 
in operation anyway. The way that I would test the drive is to listen 
for noises on powerup or disk activity.

I do believe that Hitachi did release some firmware for the drives later 
for drive problems. I am not sure the firmware upgrade resolved the 
failures or not.

You might try a different drive type to see if the problem is related to 
the disk or other factors.

Jim

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