Hi first of all this is the second time this is happened in 2 days i think i can reproduce it by doing dd if=/dev/scd1 of=aniso.iso bs=8192k it seems to happen when the cd drive mis reads from the disc cd drives its on the 44x scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 7200 Rev: 3.01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-ROM 44X Rev: T4C2 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 let me know if you need any more info. ksymoops 2.4.1 on i586 2.4.17. Options used -v /home/james/kernel-build/BEAST/vmlinux (specified) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -L (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.4.17/ (default) -m /home/james/kernel-build/BEAST/System.map (specified) No modules in ksyms, skipping objects Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 23210119 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c01d6016>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 23210101 ebx: c3c67800 ecx: c0354278 edx: c0330177 esi: 00000001 edi: cbfdf520 ebp: c03543e0 esp: c02e3f24 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c02e3000) Stack: 23210101 c03543e0 c13d1360 00000202 c0354278 c01c1640 c03543e0 c01d5fa0 c131fb80 04000001 0000000f c02e3f98 c010810a 0000000f c13d1360 c02e3f98 c02e3f98 0000000f c0328ae0 c131fb80 c010828d 0000000f c02e3f98 c131fb80 Call Trace: [<c01c1640>] [<c01d5fa0>] [<c010810a>] [<c010828d>] [<c01051a0>] [<c01051a0>] [<c01051c4>] [<c0105232>] [<c0105000>] Code: 8b 50 18 42 89 50 18 8b 85 cc 00 00 00 8b 68 04 55 6a 01 e8 >>EIP; c01d6016 <idescsi_pc_intr+76/260> <===== Trace; c01c1640 <ide_intr+f0/150> Trace; c01d5fa0 <idescsi_pc_intr+0/260> Trace; c010810a <handle_IRQ_event+3a/70> Trace; c010828d <do_IRQ+6d/b0> Trace; c01051a0 <default_idle+0/30> Trace; c01051a0 <default_idle+0/30> Trace; c01051c4 <default_idle+24/30> Trace; c0105232 <cpu_idle+42/60> Trace; c0105000 <_stext+0/0> Code; c01d6016 <idescsi_pc_intr+76/260> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c01d6016 <idescsi_pc_intr+76/260> <===== 0: 8b 50 18 mov 0x18(%eax),%edx <===== Code; c01d6019 <idescsi_pc_intr+79/260> 3: 42 inc %edx Code; c01d601a <idescsi_pc_intr+7a/260> 4: 89 50 18 mov %edx,0x18(%eax) Code; c01d601d <idescsi_pc_intr+7d/260> 7: 8b 85 cc 00 00 00 mov 0xcc(%ebp),%eax Code; c01d6023 <idescsi_pc_intr+83/260> d: 8b 68 04 mov 0x4(%eax),%ebp Code; c01d6026 <idescsi_pc_intr+86/260> 10: 55 push %ebp Code; c01d6027 <idescsi_pc_intr+87/260> 11: 6a 01 push $0x1 Code; c01d6029 <idescsi_pc_intr+89/260> 13: e8 00 00 00 00 call 18 <_EIP+0x18> c01d602e <idescsi_pc_intr+8e/260> <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! James -------------------------- Mobile: +44 07779080838 http://www.stev.org 1:10pm up 55 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/