[Baphijmm]

So, to give a bit more context, I took pictures! This first one illustrates the format options as provided on my Solaris 9 install disk. For the record, this is version 9/05, on DVD.



And these are the options as given on the current Solaris 10 DVD ISO as provided by Oracle:



As you can see in the first image, auto configure fails; this is true for both versions, and the exact same error occurs in both.

Now, strangely enough, the error mode of the failure to format given the "usual" SUN72G format has changed as of tonight: Instead of trying and failing at every chance, now it's not even really trying. The picture below illustrates this error, which, again, is consistent across both Solaris 9 and 10.



I'm pretty well stumped. Do I just have a dud drive?