I've been trying to help CC_333 with his missing firmware problem.

I see exactly what you're talking about with the weird "every 9 bytes" thing, trag. I can't figure out what's going on either. I've gone so far as to play around with debugging and disassembling the FirmTek 1S2 5.1.3 firmware update utility, but I haven't really gotten anywhere. I've found where it loads the firmware update file into RAM, but I can't find any decoding routine or anything. I was thinking maybe it could be compressed with something like LZSS compression, but I just don't know. Nothing jumps out as obvious. :-(

I found a FirmTek 1S2 card on eBay and bought it. I'll desolder and dump the chip to figure out what is actually flashed to it. This problem has me stumped enough that I have to figure out what's going on for real