Final Cut Studio: Kernel Panic with Kona 3 cards on Mac Pro

Products Affected

Final Cut Studio

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Symptoms

If your Mac Pro has Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard and a Kona 3 PCI Express (PCIe) card, a kernel panic may occur in some unsupported PCIe slot configurations.  Specifically, this may occur if the PCIe slot hosting the Kona 3 card is configured as an x1 lane slot.

Resolution

Install the Kona 3 card in a PCIe slot that is configured as an x4 lane slot, not an x1 lane slot.

For more details, please refer to Final Cut Studio: How to optimize PCI Express card performance.

Additional Information

Read more about kernel panic here.

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