Re: Kernel panic, SB validate failed

[Gaspar Bakos <gbakos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks for all who helped regarding this problem. I though I would tell
the solution so it an be closed. The bottom line is that it wasn't
directly an XFS problem, but rather hardware.

Steve's detective work  - suggesting that the cable might be bad  - was
very close to the true cause. I ran smartctl, and it reported a bunch of
errors for the disk. Then I replaced the cable, but the filesystem was
already screwed. After inspection of the harddrive I noticed that one of
the small pins that plug in the ATA cable is broken (bent), and also that
the cable is suspicious (old and shows some wear). It is still a mystery
how the hdd worked with one pin not in contact, and suddenly failed...

Best wishes
Gaspar