Cannot see disk in J4200 by "format" command - Solaris 10

Dear all,
I have a Sun SPARC T2000 server and a J4200 array connected to each other by SAS cable. The T2000 server was installer Solaris 10u8.
I installed CAM 6.5 software in my server and I successfully registered the J4200 array, after that, I can see all disks in this array.
However, when I issued the "format" command, I didn't see any disk in my array. I've got the same result after performing a reconfiguration boot.
I do not know how to do now to see the disks in this array.
Please help me in this case.
Thank all of you very much.
HuyNQ.

Folks,
Interesting info as I tried with SPARC base runing Solaris 10 OS. The daemon is auto imported the unit without I have to issue the OS scan device "devfsadm".
# cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a SPARC
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 22 January 2005
This issue is seen on X386 platform, only.
# cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 3/05 s10_74L2a X86
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 22 January 2005
thanks
Hoang.

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