Using a hex editor, I paged through the TSATA firmware file which can be extracted from one of the updaters and it looks like every ninth byte is a blank which needs to be removed. Except the pattern is not that simple.

My guess is that when the updater software writes the firmware file to the TSATA card, it removes the extraneous material from the firmware file during the process. However, simply copying the firmware file to a Flash chip doesn't look like it is going to work.

The firmware needs to be obtained directly from a flash chip on the TSATA card, not from the updating software package.