It seems that Adaptec / Microsemi stopped offering Firmware downloads for their old hardware like the Adaptec AAR-1430SA Raid controller. Which is kind of sad because most of them just continue to work fine and you can find them for cheap on online marketplaces. I mean whats that for a bitch move. Hosting a sub 1 megabyte file could not be the Problem for a company like Mircosemi.
The only culprit is that older Firmware Versions do not support harddisks bigger than 2.2TB. Means if you get such a card and dont have the update file, you have a problem.
A nice person from Ukraine contacted my with that problem, so i dumped my bios from my card (after searching for a suitable afu.exe for two hours), but in the mean time the problem was solved because this person found an archive of the original firmware by itself in the depth of the web. This has the davantage that does not change the cards serial number just like my dump would do.
So now i can offer you the download of this Firmware and driver archive so anyone who gets such a card in the future could update it, and use ist.
Simply use a FreeDOS boot drive for that (but dont use Unetbootin its outdated).
Use it a your own risk, firmware Updates are always risky.
