CD Rom Problems

I having problems in detecting the cdROM in my Solaris 9. When I issuing the command iostat, it show no statistic on my cdROM, it just showing the HDD and others.
<<Question 1>> What actually happened? The cdROM is not detected/cdROM defected or it is not mounted yet?
<<Question 2>> What is the result from command iostat if the cdROM is actually detected?
Example output reflect to the question 2:
Quote:
$ iostat -xtc 5 2
extended disk statistics tty cpu
disk r/s w/s Kr/s Kw/s wait actv svc_t %w %b tin tout us sy wt id
sd0 2.6 3.0 20.7 22.7 0.1 0.2 59.2 6 19 0 84 3 85 11 0
sd1 4.2 1.0 33.5 8.0 0.0 0.2 47.2 2 23
sd2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0
sd3 10.2 1.6 51.4 12.8 0.1 0.3 31.2 3 31
Hope somebody can help here. Thanks.

You also posted this same question at another forum web site.
It appears your answer is going to be over there.
There's now no sense in duplicating it here.
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Im using P4 2.4 ASUS MB (Via chipset VT8237)256MB 60GB HD52x Asus CDromSB Li've 24 bitHard disk is primary IDE, CD rom is secondary IDE masters
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