PANIC - Non-recoverable kernal page fault...

[Bob Willey]

In article <77688 at tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Mowgli Assor <mowgli at cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>Well, here it goes again! <Sigh> Recently, we have had a rash of page fault
>panics (4 in 5 days). We have not changed anything for weeks! So, can someone
>The machine we are using is an IBM PS/2 Model 80, 6Meg RAM, ~100Meg HD, w/3
>Digiport smart modem boards. Thursday, we got the following error messages:
>Trap 0000000E in SYSTEM     error = 00000000
>Panic - Non-recoverable Kernal Page Fault
>Trap 0000000E in SYSTEM     error = 00000000
>Panic - Non-recoverable Kernal Page Fault
>Address: mowgli at puffer.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mowgli Assor in real life)
>     Or: mowgli at cis.ohio-state.edu, mowgli at osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu


This problem has been report before.
There was a problem with the dkinit program and the
way that the PS/2 drives reported the info to it for
the automatic install.   Basically what happened was that 
the drive was being formatted as 112 cylinder instead of 110
and thus the page (swap) area is in non-existent space.!!
Check how the drive is configured:
 ESDI Drive             70 MB           115 MB          300 MB
 Cylinders               70               110            300
 Heads                   64               64             64
 Sectors per track       32               32             32
..
If you have this problem, it will necessitate reformatting the
drive.  The reason you probably did not notice it prior
(Because we didn't notice it at first either), is due to
activity on the system.  When you finally had enough activity
(bunch of tasks in Pro maybe...) then it filled up the
swap space and then the PANIC.

Hope this helps.

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