Kernel panic with 3TB USB external hard drive
Hi all,
I have just purchased a 3TB western digital elements hard drive, and formatted into two partitions (one 1tb mac extended, one 2tb ntfs) but every time I plug it into my macbook pro I get a kernel panic. I used find file to look for and remove any western digital or wdc extensions / frameworks, and it still happens. Here's my kernel panic log... any suggestions?
I have winmagic securedoc media viewer for mac 6.1.1 installed (needed for encrypted drives at work), and vmware fusion installed, don't know if those are involved in the panic or if its something else... any help is appreciated.
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 1555686 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 10
Anonymous UUID: 7A6F8823-2EED-7575-5DB0-E78BE198AAF4
Tue Jan 22 12:47:38 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff80238b7bd5): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80238ac720, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000000000, CR3: 0x000000000587901d, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
RAX: 0xffffff80386a6000, RBX: 0xffffff803e1eb850, RCX: 0xffffff8037d5d208, RDX: 0xffffff8038674b90
RSP: 0xffffff8145623458, RBP: 0xffffff8145623480, RSI: 0x0000000000000002, RDI: 0x0000000000000000
R8: 0xffffff803e1e9648, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0xffffff8038674b90, R11: 0x0000000000000206
R12: 0x0000000000000002, R13: 0xffffff80386a6000, R14: 0xffffff80385b2000, R15: 0x0000000000000024
RFL: 0x0000000000010202, RIP: 0xffffff80238ac720, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x0
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81456230f0 : 0xffffff802381d626
0xffffff8145623160 : 0xffffff80238b7bd5
0xffffff8145623330 : 0xffffff80238ce4ed
0xffffff8145623350 : 0xffffff80238ac720
0xffffff8145623480 : 0xffffff7fa5cdcc9d
0xffffff81456234b0 : 0xffffff8023910669
0xffffff8145623520 : 0xffffff80238d81d5
0xffffff8145623d80 : 0xffffff80238d9dfc
0xffffff8145623f50 : 0xffffff8023be182a
0xffffff8145623fb0 : 0xffffff80238ced33
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.tuxera.filesystems.tufsfs.fusefs_txantfs(2012.10.5)[012B908A-B31D-3894-8FDC -D223F224CAE3]@0xffffff7fa5cca000->0xffffff7fa5ce0fff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: mds
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Darwin Kernel Version 12.2.0: Sat Aug 25 00:48:52 PDT 2012; root:xnu-2050.18.24~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 69A5853F-375A-3EF4-9247-478FD0247333
Kernel slide: 0x0000000023600000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8023800000
System model name: MacBookPro8,2 (Mac-94245A3940C91C80)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 30879129695
last loaded kext at 29852483225: com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.5.1 (addr 0xffffff7fa4471000, size 45056)
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Model: MacBookPro8,2, BootROM MBP81.0047.B27, 4 processors, Intel Core i7, 2.5 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 1.69f3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000, Intel HD Graphics 3000, Built-In, 512 MB
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6770M, AMD Radeon HD 6770M, PCIe, 1024 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x802C, 0x31364A53463531323634485A2D3147314431
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1067 MHz, 0x802C, 0x31364A53463531323634485A2D3147314431
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xD6), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.81.22)
Bluetooth: Version 4.0.9f33 10885, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HTS727575A9E362, 750.16 GB
Serial ATA Device: KINGSTON SV100S2128G, 128.04 GB
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfa100000 / 3
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0252, 0xfa120000 / 5
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 4
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x821a, 0xfa113000 / 6
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in), apple_vendor_id, 0x8509, 0xfa200000 / 2
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfd100000 / 2
USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd110000 / 3
You might try disabling some of this non-OS stuff that you've installed: com.winmagic.SCSIPeripheralDevice00 1.0.0 com.tuxera.filesystems.tufsfs.fusefs_txantfs 2012.10.5 com.cleverandson.driver.XAerial 1.0.0 com.winmagic.driver.BlockStorage8 86.1.10 com.winmagic.BlockStorage 1.0.0 com.winmagic.driver.SDFamily 1.0.0 com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt 0.0.74
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