Tape on Dell 2450, changes with no luck

[Scott Long]

pgrunwald at comcast.net wrote:
> Scott - Thank You!!!!
> 
> I rolled back to PERC 3/Si  driver 2.7-1 build 3571 and everything is working as expected.
> 
> I see the drive at bios now under the 7899 channel b.
> 
> The sa driver is loaded at boot.
> 
> mt status is reporting correctly.
> 
> I want to beat on this a little more and verify to myself that this machine oi production worthy but I believe that it is fixed.   
> 
> Best regards,
> P.

There is really no good reason at this time to use the 2.8 BIOS/firmware
unless you are using Windows.  Glad the problem is solved for you.  Too
bad the Dell Tech Support wasn't of much help.  Guess they need to
update their scripts.

Scott