Andrew,

> Is it?  I don't recall us having established that.  Does the machine run
> any earlier kernel without failing?
The lowest version I could go back was 2.6.12 which also panicked, so I
guess it happens everywhere.

I am now trying to get a small disk that is not accessed via the pci ide
card, perhaps that brings more info.

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Regards/MfG,
Christian Weiske