On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:20:42AM -0500, Valery Kobrin wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> The problem is not directly with obsd installed on scsi disk (fujitsu,
> mas3735np, 73.4gb, 15,000rpm). Initially, the only system installed on it
> was Win XP Pro, but it was infected and I installed obsd 3.6 over it, also
> as a single OS on the whole disk, with the only purpose - to re-format the
> whole disk with the format system different from NTFS. Installed without
> problems. It worked. Immediately after that I tried to do a clean install
> of Win XP from setup floppies and CD, but the disk became invisible to
> setup though it was visible to the scsi controller. I disconnected the disk
> from the computer (HP workstation xw8000) and connected it to the IBM
> computer with Win XP installed on it. The disk was visible to the OS and I
> formatted it with NTFS. It was still invisible to HP. Then I again
> connected it to the IBM and installed Win XP on it successfully. But it was
> nevertheless still invisible to HP. I supposed that OBSD somehow changed HP
> Setup settings and set Setup settings to default. After that HP started
> saying "ntldr is missing". I created boot floppy to fix ntldr problem as it
> is recommended on MS site, but it didn't help. The disk is still invisible.
> Does somebody have any idea what has happened and how it could be fixed?
Looks like you need to load a third-party SCSI driver in the Windows
setup, really. Anyway, this is not likely to be an OpenBSD problem, so I
don't think this is really on topic here.
Plus wiping disks can be done very conveniently from the install media
by selecting the shell and executing dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mydisk0a.
Joachim
