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:
8b 35 00 b0 34 c0 b8 00 f0
<0> Kernel Panic: Fatal exception in interrupt
In interrupt handle – Not Syncing
It’s running Fedora Core 2.6.5-1.350
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.
I have run memtest86 and it finds no errors.
Any help would be appreciated.
Dave
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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