> I just ran into this on b73. It's an opensolaris bug:
> 
> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6600169
> 
> Per the bug report, this should be going back into
> build 74.

Nope, as far as I understand it, it was planned to put back
a fix into build 74, but that didn't happen.  So I expect that
build 74 - when if becomes available for download - fails in
the same way.  The ata driver source code in the current
opensolaris mercurial source code repository is unchanged
since build 72. See:

http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/dktp/controller/ata/


AFAIK, the change that is responsible for the bug
is this change at line 1422 commented with "0x0, 0x7f,
or 0xff can happen when no drive is present" 
in function ata_drive_type() in file ata_common.c:

http://src.opensolaris.org/source/diff/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/uts/intel/io/dktp/controller/ata/ata_common.c?r2=4852&r1=3652

> I wish I knew about the bug earlier. I could have saved a DVD.
> Incidentally, I found this thread with a google search.
> site:opensolaris.org "cannot find install software".
> 
> My system has an Asus P4P800 Deluxe motherboard with
> a Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1402.

Is that a P-ATA optical drive?  Is it the only drive connected to the
P-ATA IDE channel?  If this really is the same problem that I 
observed recently with the ata driver, try connecting the optical
device as a slave device together with a ATA HDD master device
on the same IDE channel; this might work around the problem.
 
 
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