Help! Kernel panic whenever I plug in my new 2TB WD My Passport

Hello everyone,
I have a 27 inch iMac that is still under AppleCare. When I plug in my 2 TB WD My Passport external drive, I get the screen that says, "You need to restart your computer. Hold down the Power button until it turns off, then press the Power button again." When the computer restarts, if I don't eject the drive fast enough it will display the same message. I have no other problems with connecting external devices. I have even tried a friend's 1TB WD Passport external drive and it worked perfectly fine. Does anyone know what could be causing this? I have copied the kernel panic from the system diagnostic report below. Thanks in advance!
Tue Jun 11 13:26:02 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80002c4794): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f81922f16, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000100000001, CR3: 0x0000000001047002, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
RAX: 0x0000000100000001, RBX: 0xffffff800de65600, RCX: 0x00000000032f0000, RDX: 0xffffff800df05f20
RSP: 0xffffff8080f1bd80, RBP: 0xffffff8080f1bd90, RSI: 0x0000000000000002, RDI: 0x0000000100000001
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0xffffff801a912804, R10: 0xffffff7f808aa1d0, R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0xffffff8080f1bda0, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0xffffff800b8983e8, R15: 0x0000000000000000
RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff7f81922f16, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
CR2: 0x0000000100000001, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Faulting CPU: 0x0
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8080f1ba30 : 0xffffff8000220792
0xffffff8080f1bab0 : 0xffffff80002c4794
0xffffff8080f1bc60 : 0xffffff80002da55d
0xffffff8080f1bc80 : 0xffffff7f81922f16
0xffffff8080f1bd90 : 0xffffff800031966f
0xffffff8080f1bdc0 : 0xffffff7f81920dc9
0xffffff8080f1bde0 : 0xffffff8000300b0f
0xffffff8080f1be50 : 0xffffff7f81921919
0xffffff8080f1be90 : 0xffffff800030470f
0xffffff8080f1bec0 : 0xffffff80002fcf64
0xffffff8080f1bf30 : 0xffffff800030e6cc
0xffffff8080f1bf50 : 0xffffff80005ce4cb
0xffffff8080f1bfb0 : 0xffffff80002daea3
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.paragon-software.filesystems.ntfs(82.0)[7C8AA772-9567-55A7-3069-6DD823CC6CF 1]@0xffffff7f8191e000->0xffffff7f81952fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: launchd
Mac OS version:
11G63
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 11.4.2: Thu Aug 23 16:25:48 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1699.32.7~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: FF3BB088-60A4-349C-92EA-CA649C698CE5
System model name: iMac12,2 (Mac-942B59F58194171B)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 317939599218
last loaded kext at 248909498309: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC          4.1.22 (addr 0xffffff7f807a8000, size 16384)
last unloaded kext at 209772276633: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI          5.1.0 (addr 0xffffff7f80aa7000, size 65536)
loaded kexts:
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com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch          70.12
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor          1.9.5d0
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com.apple.security.quarantine          1.4
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet          8
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com.apple.kext.ATI6000Controller          7.3.2
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com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport          2.3.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB          7.3.2
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily          2.3.4
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPOutAdapter          1.8.5
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPInAdapter          1.8.5
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPAdapterFamily          1.8.5
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltPCIDownAdapter          1.2.5
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController          4.0.8f17
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily          4.0.8f17
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice          3.2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily          1.7
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily          1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily          1.7.1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver          5.0.0
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com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass          3.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily          3.2.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub          5.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite          5.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltNHI          1.6.0
com.apple.iokit.IOThunderboltFamily          2.0.3
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com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController          1.0.1b1
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com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily          2.0.8
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily          5.1.0
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com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily          1.1
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com.apple.kext.AppleMatch          1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages          331.7
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily          1.7.2
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore          28.18
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com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily          2.7
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Does the drive itself come with pre-installed software? I'm seeing "WD’s automatic, continuous backup software works quietly in the background to help protect your data using minimal PC resources. Whenever you add or change a file, it’s instantly backed up."
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=640
If it's not that, then it might be something in the chipset of the WD external enclosure that doesn't play well with the Mac.
If you look around in Sys Prefs>Login Items, anything there from WD? Also look in /Library/Startup Items and there and in /System/Library/ for Launch Daemons or Launch Agents.
Get FindAnyFile and enter "WD" Hold down Option(alt) when hitting Find.
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php

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Periodically, the RAID card conditions the battery. In the past I've been able to work while this was happening but, about three weeks ago, the conditioning started and the computer became completely unusable: there were kernel panics every minute or two and, on restarting, the report showed "AppleRAIDCard Controller Panic...". I eventually gave up and left it alone until the conditioning finished, and it's worked fine since.
This situation has just started again. It's only three weeks since the last conditioning; the gap was 6 weeks last time; and 12 weeks the time before that. Is the battery failing? Does that explain the constant AppleRAIDCard Controller-initiated kernel panics?
I didn't set up this computer and could happily live without RAID but this OS drive now has lots of software installed, much of which needed to be authorised by challenges/responses and explanations to software manufacturers as to why it was being reinstalled etc. Reformatting and reinstalling everything again would be a major PITA.
Is it possible to move the drives to a software RAID 0 without reformatting them? Is this likely to be less problematic than the Apple RAID card?
Thanks in advance,
Steve = : ^ )

I'd just like someone to comment on whether they think the battery alone could be responsible for unending KPs whenever the controller is conditioning the battery, or whether the card might be faulty.
I wonder about both points.
Did some searching, and there are several reports of other users with battery problems.
For some, the battery fixed the problem, for others, no remedy.
One example:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=439873
For troubleshooting, identifying the source through eliminating causes related to the symptoms would be a reasonable approach.
Since the KP's occur only during battery conditioning, it places the most suspicion on the battery.
Personally, I see this as most telling.
Since you can't run without the battery, a replacement is the only way that I can think of to test the battery.
Other possibilities could be firmware related.
Is the card and the MP running the most current firmware?
If the firmware of the card and the MP are up to date, the battery, again, comes to the top of the suspect list.
And, of course, there is always the possibility that a component on card has failed.
Unfortunately, as with the battery, a replacement is needed to test.
I wouldn't move on this point until the battery theory were tested.
Not to dismiss the potential for software involvement, I'm wondering what are the OS X kexts that are involved with the processes leading to the KP's?
Logs in Console may provide some information.
Portions of the KP report immediately after the word "backtrace" also provide the best information.

I experience a kernel panic whenever I close firefox and have to hard reboot my machine.

I am running Mac OS X 10.7.4 and Firefox 15.0.1 on a Macbook Pro 9,1. Almost every time I close firefox, the computer freezes completely and/or has a kernel panic, and in all situations I have to hard-reboot the machine. I've tried uninstalling other 3rd party apps and have sourced the problem to firefox. When I view the system report of the crash after rebooting, it says that the source of the crash was from a firefox process and something related to Nvidia Geforce. I was wondering if this may be related to the graphics switching on the new macbooks (I have a intel 4000 + a Nvidia 650m), however, I still get crashes when I turn off automatic graphics switching. My other thought was perhaps this problem has to do with hardware acceleration. Unfortunately, I tried disabling hardware acceleration in firefox and it still caused the computer to crash.
I'm happy to hear any suggestions! I don't want to have to switch to another browser, but using firefox 15 in its current state has made my computer unstable and unusable.

Which is it, hanging or crashing, or both?
* https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox%20hangs#w_hang-at-exit
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes
* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Firefox%20crashes

Kernel Panic Message...Caused by new RAM???

Hey guys, just purchased 2x1gb ram from otherworldcomputing.com for my powerbook G4, im currently running the latest version I can possibly run which is 10.5.8 Everything seemed great when I put the RAM in, seemed like my computer was running pretty fast campared to the 512gb that came with the computer. All of a sudden, while im searching the web, it throws that kernel panic message up at me. I restarted and a few minutes later while im still on the web, bam, the same message.
I am currently in safe mode while Im writing this and nothing has happened yet(update:a few mintues after I finished typing this thread I received the same message, I have turned the computer off and jumped on my wiftes computer to type this I am thinking about putting the original 512mg ram back in to see if I get the message again)
Wierd, the first few days witht the new RAM everything seemed fine and then all of a sudden I got those messages. I have never had the problem ever before so it makes sense that its gotta be the new RAM right? Here are my specs
Model Name:          PowerBook G4 15"
Model Identifier:          PowerBook5,6
Processor Name:          PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Processor Speed:          1.67 GHz
Number Of CPUs:          1
L2 Cache (per CPU):          512 KB
Memory:          2 GB
Bus Speed:          167 MHz
Boot ROM Version:          4.9.1f1
Hardware UUID:          00000000-0000-1000-8000-0011243630A2
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State:          Enabled
Version:          1.0
This is the log from the 2nd kernel panic message that i copied and pasted for you guys
Process:         SystemUIServer [404]
Path:            /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
Identifier:      com.apple.systemuiserver
Version:         1.5.5 (248.9)
Build Info:      SystemUIServer-2480900~26
Code Type:       PPC (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [63]
Date/Time:       2012-04-08 11:31:41.326 -0500
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: C89C038C-A8C3-4C08-B445-D420315A507C
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000002f61400
Crashed Thread: 0

To eliminate RAM being the problem, Look at this link: Testing RAM @ http://guides.macrumors.com/Testing_RAM Then download & use Memtest & Ramber.
Do you have an Apple Hardware Test disc (the AHT is on the Install/Restore DVD that came with your Mac)? Running the Apple Hardware Test in Loop Mode is an excellent troubleshooting step for finding intermittent hardware problems. It is especially useful when troubleshooting intermittent kernel panics. If Loop Mode is supported by the version of the Apple Hardware Test you are using, you run the Extended Test in Loop Mode by pressing Control-L before starting the test. Looping On should appear in the right window. Then click the Extended Test button.The test will run continuously until a problem is found. If a problem is found, the test will cease to loop, indicating the problem it found. If the test fails, be sure to write down the exact message associated with the failure.In some cases, RAM problems did not show up until nearly 40 loops, so give it a good run.
 Cheers, Tom

Larch 5.3. Kernel panic in produced live media with new mkinitcpio 0.6

After updating to new mkinitcpio 0.6.x, any Larch 5.3 live media produced, does not boot, but hangs in a kernel panic.
Perhaps gradgrind, you should have a look at it.
Last edited by wantilles (2010-02-14 15:53:28)

I don't think I'll have time to look after fixing larch-5 any more. If anyone is desperate to keep this branch alive, please contribute code!
My next priority will be to get larch-7 working with the new mkinitcpio.

PB locks up (kernel panic) when i plug/unplug

not sure of the terminology is correct, but the faded gray screen with the black "you must restart" warning box pops up when i plug/unplug my PB. it's on it's 2nd replacement logic board... time for a 3rd? or software?...

anyone? i'm becoming a regular at the genius bar (2nd LB replacement in 2 weeks) and would love not to repeat the process...

Whenever i plug in my new iPhone 4 to my itunes, it does a bunch of steps to back up my iPhone and then tells me there isnt enough accses privlidges to sync this iPhone. what does this mean, nd how do i fix it?

I had used this itunes with my ipod nano before.

Depending on what OS you are using on the computer and your profile says Windows 7, you need to have Administrative priviledges to do some things. If you have Admin priviledges and have restarted the computer and are still having issues, you might want to uninstall iTunes and reinstall it. It will not delete your music library, but you need to follow the instructions found in this support document to be sure to get everything out.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
Then resinstall and see if that helps.

Kernel panic by mini-diplay port caused by 10.8.5 security update 2015-001 10.8.5

After updating Mountain Lion (10.8.5) with Security update 2015-001, my 2008 15" MacBook Pro suffered kernel panic whenever I plugged in a mini-display port to HDMI cable. The issue resolved by reverting to the immediate previous backup, which had Security Update 2014-005 as its most recent update.. I verified that update 2015-001 was the problem by installing in on an archived clean system (10.8.5) which also had Security Update 2014-005 as its most recent update.
Here is a capture of the kernel panic:
Panics Since Last Report:
2
Anonymous UUID:
6A6C7BA9-978F-41AD-6177-1066D3CD3909
Fri Feb 20 12:32:23 2015
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff8008e9e74b): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0xc3, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x0"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2050.48.15/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2343
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80f9c8ba70 : 0xffffff8008e1d6d6
0xffffff80f9c8bae0 : 0xffffff8008e9e74b
0xffffff80f9c8bb60 : 0xffffff8008ea2f60
0xffffff80f9c8bc20 : 0xffffff8008ea3795
0xffffff80f9c8bc70 : 0xffffff8008e673bc
0xffffff80f9c8bd60 : 0xffffff8008e6b290
0xffffff80f9c8bd90 : 0xffffff8008e65d8f
0xffffff80f9c8bdc0 : 0xffffff800920a843
0xffffff80f9c8bde0 : 0xffffff800926d8a5
0xffffff80f9c8be30 : 0xffffff8008e97f84
0xffffff80f9c8be80 : 0xffffff8008e20bed
0xffffff80f9c8beb0 : 0xffffff8008e10488
0xffffff80f9c8bf00 : 0xffffff8008e196bb
0xffffff80f9c8bf70 : 0xffffff8008ea6746
0xffffff80f9c8bfb0 : 0xffffff8008ecf8c3
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: loginwindow
Boot args: -v
Mac OS version:
12F45
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.6.0: Wed Dec 17 19:11:40 PST 2014; root:xnu-2050.48.15~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 2C802015-932B-3BDF-8ACF-DA75BE3F81AD
Kernel slide:
0x0000000008c00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8008e00000
System model name: MacBookPro8,2 (Mac-94245A3940C91C80)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 54851862397
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Try un-installing the 3rd party software according to the developer's un-install instructions.

My macbook pro was often kernel panic . Help !

My macbook often kernel panic, if i plug hardisk external . can you help me for solve this problem ?

The forum specifically for MacBook Pro:
MacBook Pro
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
Avoiding eliminating Kernel panics
FAQ kernelpanic
Resolving Kernel Panics
Could be the case or cable - try a different cable.
If you are trying to use it with USB, do you have a different interface to use like Firewire?
When you do have panic, you also have left your internal system with corrupt directory that now needs to be repaired. Making and adding more problems.
Try boot from OS X DVD and repair your system - go to Utilty menu => Disk Utility: Repair disk drive
Get your system working. first.
Do you have backup from before this started? when or how did it begin?
What has happened to your external? able to repair the drive?
do you have a backup for it?
How is it formatted? what is it used for? TimeMachine? PC and Windows? other?
ps: this forum is Mac Pro "workstations" - not laptops

ESATA Kernel Panics in Safari 5.1.7 (OSX 10.7.4)

I'm experiencing kernel panics whenever attempting to load drives using the browser-based interface for the HighPoint Technologies RocketRAID Quad eSATA 6 Gbit/s for Mac controller. This began occurring immediately after updating to Safari 5.1.7 (OSX v10.7.4).
All my eSATA peripherals are therefore completely unusable. Rather than using Time Machine to back up to the last update, has anyone got a workaround? Either using Terminal or Firefox or something else? IE?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Update: Safari 5.1.7 seems to be causing the problem. Firefox 11 is not causing kernel panics.

MacBook pro 8,2 late-2011 after series of kernel panics and video glitches stopped booting

Hello, friends... I am shattered, my MacBook Pro stopped booting today. It all started two days ago, when I came to India and got USB modem dongle from Tata Docomo. It was making Lion kernel panic whenever it was connected to Internet, but had no effect while disconnected or unplugged from the laptop. Then yesterday I had a kernel panic while playing a video in VLC, then while using Skype, and after a while I figured out the pattern, it would crash every time computer switched on the graphic card instead of the on-board CPU graphics. It would also crash with striped blue screen and misplace it horizontally. All this time I was looking for the solution on the internet, and ran two hardware tests, both normal and extended, both showed no issues, tried booting into safe mode getting the striped blue kernel panic screen after the progress bar filled. Resetting the ram also didn't help. Now it will not boot at all, only the hardware test is still working. After the logo screen in normal mode it just goes power off or hangs in grey screen for infinity.
Please, I need your help guys, I'm desperate, went to India for a few months and laptop breaking down almost straight away, and I'm also a dj, so its like a musical instrument to me, that I cannot work without...
Again - MacBook Pro 8,2 Late-2011, 2,4 ghz, 750gb hdd, 4gb ram, ati 1gb graphic card and running Lion 10.7.3, thanks!

Try the fixes here, take it back for a warranty call
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3046

Kernel Panics and other errors

Ok here's the deal. I was having a lot of problems with my MacBook Pro and reinstalling Leopard did nothing to help, so I took it to the Apple store near me and checked it in. A couple of weeks later I got it back with a new logic board, new hard drive, and new hard drive cable. Since then I've been having kernel panics every now and then. The only time it happens regularly is when I try to do a directory repair with DiskWarrior on my external Firewire drive running 10.5.3.
The FW drive's panic log refers to a simple lock deadlock detection caused by com.alsoft.Preview. A Safe Boot fixes the issue, which would point to a conflicting kext or login item or something like that. What I can't figure out is why it worked perfectly before my laptop was repaired, and now consistently causes a kernel panic whenever I run it. Nothing on the external drive has changed since then, so I'd have to assume the hardware change would be the problem. But then why would a Safe Boot solve the problem? Maybe a driver or something that isn't being loaded in Safe Mode but normally is encountering an error due to bad hardware?
I also have two other panic logs from my internal hard drive. The first is a kernel trap, also caused by com.alsoft.Preview. I'm not sure why it was stored on the internal hard drive's Logs folder since I only run DiskWarrior from my FW drive (it's not even installed on the internal drive), but I digress. The other panic was caused by an "IOGMD: not wired for the IODMACommand" error. Apparently the error had to do with a few USB-related drivers and IOKits, namely IOUSBMassStorageClass, AppleUSBEHCI, and IOUSBFamily. I've been having some weird issues with my USB flash drive lately, mostly file transfers going incredibly slow (like 300 KB/sec slow). I haven't been having these issues on any other computer, and I've even verified the flash drive with Disk Utility, so I would have to say the problem is with the Mac and not the drive itself.
Now for the other errors. I've been getting Disk Too Slow errors in GarageBand when recording guitar tracks (which I've never gotten before), and there's a lot of background noise when recording that wasn't there before the repair. Before I could connect the audio output on the amp to the line in on my laptop using a 1/4" to 3.5 mm cable, and everything sounded pretty clean. Now the sound is distorted and there's a lot of static during silence. The only way to get it sound somewhat decent is to play around with the gate and compression settings.
I'm also having occasional issues ejecting drives and virtual drives, Spotlight tries to index drives that are added to the exception list in System Preferences, and weird random errors showing up in Console related to Finder, Dock, certain apps, and fseventd (the fseventd errors are usually about my flash drive). I'm leaning toward a bad logic board, even though that was just replaced. I just did an Erase and Install a few weeks ago so I doubt it's software-related. Plus I've been having issues with it in one form or another since I got it back, which also makes me think it's not the OS.
Anyway, I'm just looking for opinions at this point. I'm going to take it back to the Apple store in a few days because of a small group of dead pixels, so as long as I'm down there I'll ask them. In the meantime, anyone have any thoughts?

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