I stopped by my dealer this morning to pick up a copy of the accessories brochure. My salesman was not there so I spoke with the sales manager. He was such a cool guy. He found that my car did have a VIN so I was able to get that info. He was very knowledgable regarding the rotary engine as well as RX-7's.

The cool part of my visit was when he loaned me this cool CD-ROM to look at. It is called Mazda-RENESIS Rotary Engine Design and Technology. He explained that it is training material that is going to be shown to all Mazda employees. It is very nifty! Now if I didn't have to return it.....

 

when in doubt.. burn it to ISO...

 

BURN IT. NOW. :D

 

No. It is a full size CD-ROM. It has a Mazda part number on the back.

 

Please burn it and maybe someone from the forum will be nice enough to host the image.

 

0000-99-?????

mkie

 

0000-77-XXXX most likely.

 

what you have is called a technical training module. it is for technicians to look at before taking their mazda certified test. i too have a copy. if interested the part number is 9999-95-4589-03. it has the history of the rotary. the comparison between the rotary and a piston. and the design of the rotary.

 

I received a copy of this same CD-ROM from my dealer today.

The full title is 2004 Mazda RX-8 Technical Highlights, and the part number is as per Fubar's previous post. Here's a shot of the cover:



I've ripped an ISO image of it, and put it on my FTP server:
Address: ftp.snikte.net
User: RX8
Password: renesis

Because it's so large, I've limited the account to only two concurrent logins so that the bandwidth doesn't get split a dozen ways from Sunday - I only have 384kb/s upstream, so it'll take a while no matter how fast your downstream connection is. Please get in, get the file, and get out so the next bloke can have a go. If you have a modem connection, please don't even bother - you'll be there all week!

If somebody with more bandwidth would care to host a mirror, PM me and I'll set you up with a separate account so you can grab it without waiting.

 

if bandwidth becomes an issue i can host it too, i've dling it now thanx a ton

 

What about using Kazza. If I can download it I can give access via Kazaa

 

If I could get it downloaded I could also put it on ftp w/ 768 upload.

 

need to bittorrent the bugger

 

Thanks a lot eccles.

 

No problem - glad to help.

FYI, I've put up a zipped version as well. Although it only compresses by 4%, that's still 23MB less to transfer, so it helps! I'm also in the process of creating a .rar version; if that winds up any smaller than the .zip, I'll put it up as well.

 

Well the .rar achive turned out to be 583MB - a very worthwhile saving of 47MB - so I've put it up there, too.

Since most everyone can read either zip or rar, I'll pull the .iso image once the current users have finished downloading it.

 

Can you please leave the ISO image up as well as mine crashed halfway through the download and it would be great if I could continue that download.

Thanks

 

Likewise. I'm in the middle of the download this very minute. If it drops out, I won't attempt another DL.

 

Download a program called Bittorrent and host it with an upload cap. Everyone will download it much much faster.

 

Bittorrent looks interesting, but I'm wary of installing new technologies on my server. I might tinker with it this weekend though.

Meanwhile, folks who have already started downloading the .iso, relax. All three versions are there, and will remain until I need the space.

If you haven't already started, and you can handle RAR archives, go for the .rar; if you can't handle .rar, get the .zip; if you have already gotten past the first 20-odd MB of the .iso, stick with the .iso.

 

OK....it's been about 3 years since I have had to use FTP.

Anybody want to post some quick instructions on how to "get" the file?

 

Well....just did some digging on the proper commands (excuse my ignorance for all of you FTP wizards), connected to the server, put my username in, and got a message that there were too many users connected. 421 to be exact.

Guess I'll try tomorrow.

 

91vert,

In your Internet browser (i.e. I.E. or Netscape), type ftp://ftp.snikte.net

When that window opens. Do a right click and select login as:

Type in the user name of RX8, with the password of renesis.

It will try to authenticate the user name and password. IF you get in, you'll see the three files. Right click and do a copy. Browse out to path on your computer where you want the file to be copied and do a paste. Should start transfering the file.

 

• ftp
• open ftp.snikte.net
• user RX8
• renesis
• bin
• get techhighlights.rar
• quit

should do it.

I think 421 is the error message number - the actual number of connections, as mentioned earlier, is 2. Even with it restricted to only 2, it's still taking folks 10+ hours to grab the file, so don't hold your breath until somebody starts mirroring it somewhere.

Bridge to engine room: more steam!

 

Command line code. I'm a systems engineer, and unless I'm on my Unix boxes, I try to not use it. On my windows OS's I use it as a last resort (when an FTP transfer program is not available. :D )

I was just trying to make it easier on him, ASSUMING he was using a windows interface.