Constant Kernel Panics - Makes Me Want to End My Love Affair with Apple - Mid 2010 Mac Pro Tower 5-1

Thanks Grant! Really appreciate your insight and taking the time to respond.

I'll attach a few more panic reports... there are many stored on my computer in the file vault you referenced... thanks for that!

The amount of Kernel Panics I've dealt with is rather amusing. Here is a screen shot of some of them... the list goes on and on.

Yeah I definitely have a lot of ExFat drives! My computer has the 4 SATA hard drive bays and 3 of them are 7200 hard drives that I have formatted as ExFat. I am a video editor and I often need to share drives with team members and we find that using ExFat that the drives are readable for both Mac and PC computers.

Are you suggesting that I no longer format these harddrives as ExFat? And instead keep them in native Apple architecture? (APFS or mac OS Extended Journaled)

Or are you merely suggesting that I remove these drives before running tests?

Below is a series of Kernel Panics that took me down yesterday.

Thanks again, Grant for your insight and advice.

If there is a way for me to buy you a beer, let me know.

If you can solve this problem... I'll buy you a keg.

Hey Grant

I removed all the ExFat hard drives...

And have had 3 kernel panics in a row.

Dang it!

Any other ideas based on the system report?

Do you know how to get into to safe mode and run a system diagnostics test?

I think I remember reading that on these old Mac Pro Towers... once you install Mojave... you cannot access the boot screen.

I tried holding down "D" upon re-boot and nothing happened... it eventually just rebooted to standard Mojave OS.

Think I have a copy of Mac OS Siera laying around. I'll try booting with that and try getting into safe mode for system diagnostics testing.

Ugh.

Wow... Grant, sir... I feel like this is very good news, overall.

So a few questions about the potential killer ExFat drive.

-Assuming I figure out which of the 3 ExFat drives is the problem child... Would erasing and reformatting the "killer drive" save it and make it useful again? Or do you think that drive is unsaveble and should be burned alive like a witch it the middle ages?

-All 3 of those ExFat drives contain important information and projects, so I would have to back them up first before attempting to reformat them. Would backing up the drives just pass the defective problems onto the new drive? Or do you think the problems on the drive are more hardware related vs data related?

-i do have an external SATA harddrive reader that is attached to my compuyer via a SATA port connection. I use this to quickly read old harddrive and pull up old projects Any chance that external reader is causing the problems? Maybe it needs a firmware update or something? Or do you think it's one of the three internal harddrive? (See attached photo)

-Anyway to trouble shoot each drive? Other than just testing the computer with each drive individually to see if panics happen?

Thanks Grant.

Where can I send you a gift package?

Or maybe I can venmo you some cash as a consultation fee?

Really appreciate it.

Ha! Man I have not seen a floppy disk in a long time. We use to play frisbee with those things in our middle school's computer lab. No... that sony drive is a card reader for uploading video footage.

I ran disk utility repair on all of the drives. Seems to have tempered the angry beast for the time being.

I'll back up all the drives and test them out. If this indeed solves my issues may you be blessed by angles and admired by devils as you ride eternal into the light and darkness of this life and the next.

Thanks again, Grant.