So after spending a few days in Taipei for Computex, I was quite astonished by the overwhelming use of young female sex appeal to attract the attention of predominantly male electronics buyers.

There were more than a few vendors that used booth babes and dance teams to attract attention under the guise of product demonstrations and PR spiels. And beyond the vendors, even the Computex organisers had the Computex sweeties swarming the show. I didn't end up voting for any of them, because I didn't think it was the proper use of the young women's talents and ...

So I've finally yanked the original The Eleven hard drive from the third revision server. It's a 4GB Quantum IDE drive that had been shuffled to secondary duty, after the installation of a new 40GB Western Digital IDE drive.

To replace the 4GB Quantum IDE, I've thrown in a SCSI controller I've had laying around and a 18GB Seagate SCSI-3 drive. Unfortunately for me the driver for the SCSI controller is the sym driver. After hooking up the drive and rebooting, kernel panics occurred in under 4 minutes.

So googling around for "VTOBUS FAILED", I discovered ...