Yeah I found documentation that local upgrade via CF and is supported (FTP upgrade is not supported for 2.0 to 5.0). I have a SX-200 MX Controller that I pulled off the shelf in my office that would not boot that was found in a recycling pile, diagnosed it, pulled a DSP card out of the MMC slot, and got it to boot! I want clone the drive and then practice a local software upgrade on it via CF before heading to the field to do this.
I then want to though the original drive with older software/licensing back in and use it in my lab in the office for testing things. Does anyone know of a backdoor way to reset a SX-200 password without going through support. I have read this is possible on the 3300. Not worth spending the money to get SX-200 certified at this point with it just getting announced to be EOL (certified in 3300 and 470) and want to use it as a lab system.