> >What kind of optical drive are you using? Is that perhaps a S-ATA optical
> >drive?
>
> Yes, it is a SATA drive. Hardware ID = ?TSSTcorp
> CDDVDW SH-S203. It's supposedly a Samsung drive even
> though" Samsung" is not printed on it anywhere.
Most likely your system is using the nvidia nforce s-ata controller
(Solaris driver: nv_sata), but nv_sata does not yet support
atapi devices (=optical devices) - only s-ata hdds are supported
at this time.
That would be (open)solaris bug 6595488 "nv_sata: add support for
ATAPI devices"
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6595488
Bug 6595488 now lists "Commit to Fix: snv_91", so the
nvidia s-ata atapi support may become available
"real soon now".
If your system's bios has a setup option to configure the nvidia
s-ata controller to emulate a p-ata controller, try to enable it.
But note that enabling / disabling that option will most likely
break booting other operating systems already installed on that
box (unless you revert the bios setup option to it's original value
that was used for installing the operating system).
> I must note that I did get OpenSolaris to install in VirtualBox.
That's because VirtualBox will present a virtual disk controller
hardware device to opensolaris, most likely a p-ata controller.
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