I attempted to install OpenIndiana 151a on a Dell Poweredge 2650 server (2.8 xeon with 12gb ram, 5x 146SCSI, damn 3di controller). I put each disk into it’s own container on the controller and left the BIOS set to RAID.

I was receiving the following errors when attempting to install:

WARNING: Ignoring false simplex bit.
WARNING: Ignoring false simplex bit.
WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@0 (ata0):
timeout: abort request, target=0 lun=0
WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@0 (ata0):
timeout: abort device, target=0 lun=0
WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@0 (ata0):
timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@f,1/ide@0 (ata0):
timeout: reset bus, target=0 lun=0

IDE @ 0, the only IDE device I had was a CDROM drive. I figured it was a bad burn of the ISO – I verified the MD5 of the ISO I downloaded was correct, then I burned it again to CD (at 8X instead of 24X, just in case). Same issues persisted.

Looks like I need to disable DMA on the IDE channel to get this to work.
edit the grub configuration and add this at the end of the Kernel:
-B atapi-cd-dma-enabled=0,atapi-other-dma-enabled=0
Then run from that

I also ran the napp-it plugin:
wget -O - www.napp-it.org/amp | perl

Nexentastor Community edition did not want to run reliably on this hardware. I know it’s only 32-bit, so that is probably part of the issue. EON was just a giant pita for me, so I dropped that. FreeNAS was easy to setup but lacked on the ZFS support I wanted.