Hi.

I'm looking for a utility with which I can dump the firmware of a Silicon Image 3512 based PCI SATA RAID controller to a file which will be suitable for flashing it back again if I want to do that. It's more difficult to find than I expected. These controllers are currently being sold with firmware version 4.3.43 from 2003. The latest version on the Silicon Image site is 4.3.84 from 2007. They also have older versions there but not as far back as the one I want.

I have two of these controllers and one I flashed with that latest version. Although in all likelihood I will end up using that latest version in both I would like to be able to check its functioning against the 'original' firmware. Unfortunately the manufacturer's 'support' doesn't extend to firmware. Only drivers. If I want to compare them now I need to swap the cards and without firmware I do not yet want to flash the second one too because without that firmware in a file I won't be able to get it back to that old version once I've updated it.

Any help will be appreciated.