Hi,

I have been looking at the release notes for Solaris 10 10/09 and came across 
the following point

x86: NVidia SATA Controllers Do Not Support ATAPI Devices (6595488)
The driver for the NVidia SATA controller MCP55 and CK804 chipsets included in 
the Solaris 10 5/09 release does not support ATAPI CD/DVD devices. During 
system installation or upgrade by using a SATA CD/DVD device, the Solaris 
installer starts and appears to function but fails with the following error 
messages:
ERROR: The disc you inserted is not a Solaris OS CD/DVD
or
There were problems loading the media from /cdrom
During normal system operation, the SATA CD/DVD drive is not configured and 
cannot be used.

I find that when I try to boot from OpenSolaris my computer reboots as it 
probes devices, do you think it could be related to this bug?

Given that the old NVidia driver for the MCP55 and CK804 chipsets did support 
SATA DVD/CD drives (see below for units I currently use extracted from 
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a57 ) 
PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW  DVR-212D' '1.24' Removable CD-ROM
'LITE-ON ' 'DVDRW LH-20A1S  ' '9L08' Removable CD-ROM

What additional functionality has the new driver provided?
Can the new driver be fixed so that it does support SATA DVD drives?
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