Solid State Disk Drive not usable

I installed a Solid State SATA Disk on my SUN Ultra45 yesterday and I can not get it to work!
The disk showes up using the format command and the analyze command ran with out showing any errors, however I can not label the disk because it gives me an error.
The disk is reported as:
2. c1t2d0 <ATA-SuperTalentTec- cyl 15612 alt 2 hd 16 sec 128>
/pci@1e,600000/pci@0/pci@9/pci@0/scsi@1/sd@2,0
verify gave the following:
format> verify
Warning: Could not read primary label.
Warning: Check the current partitioning and 'label' the disk or use the
'backup' command.
Backup label contents:
Volume name = < >
ascii name = <ATA-SuperTalentTec- cyl 15612 alt 2 hd 16 sec 128>
pcyl = 15614
ncyl = 15612
acyl = 2
nhead = 16
nsect = 128
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 0 - 127 128.00MB (128/0/0) 262144
1 swap wu 128 - 255 128.00MB (128/0/0) 262144
2 backup wu 0 - 15611 15.25GB (15612/0/0) 31973376
3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 usr wm 256 - 15611 15.00GB (15356/0/0) 31449088
7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
When I tried to mount it I got:
mount: I/O error
mount: Cannot mount /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s6
I got the following response from prtvtoc:
prtvtoc -h /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0s0
prtvtoc: /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0s0: Unable to read Disk geometry errno = 0x5
What can I do to make this drive usable?
Thanks in advance,
Roger

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