[tried to post this reply yesterday, but it seems to have got lost]
> > ata_disk_iosetup: byte count 0
>
> That seems to be exactly the same problem that has
> already been
> filed as bug 6324235:
Oops, I thought I had searched the bug database as well as the forums, but
obviously not. I eventually scrubbed the Solaris installation*, and upon
reinstallation with the same disk layout, everything went fine, and I can run
format again. I suspect that the problem was some corrupted disk geometry in
the partition table or disk label, which made format ask the drive for
something weird... it would be nice if it hadn't cause a kernel panic though.
:-)
[* I scrubbed the Solaris installation by booting under Knoppix, DDing zeros
all across the Solaris partition to check once again that the actual disk
seemed alright, and then deleting the partition altogether using fdisk]
Thanks for the help,
Jason
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