Some DVD and CD-ROM Drives Fail to Boot Solaris (BugID 4397457)

The default timeout value for the SCSI portion of the SunSwift PCI Ethernet/SCSI host adapter (X1032A) card does not meet the timeout requirements of the Sun SCSI DVDROM drive (X6168A). With marginal media, the DVD-ROM occasionally experiences timeout errors. The only exceptions are Sun Fire 6800, 4810, 4800, and 3800 systems, which overwrite the SCSI timeout value via OBP.

Workaround for other platforms: use the on-board SCSI interfaces or DVD-ROM compatible SCSI adapters, such as X1018A (SBus: F501-2739-xx) or X6540A (PCI: F375-0005-xx).