That's unfortunate, I was using that just a couple of months ago. It's a real shame the internet archive doesn't do anything for the contents of FTPs, since the fic.com.tw website only links to the FTP from the internet archive, which doesn't work...

The cwcyrix.duckdns.org site is probably someone's home internet if it's only going at 10KB/s?
Maybe get in touch with CW and see if they can send across a full archive some other way.

I can't find any other full archives. There's a partial archive here, but it doesn't have the file you're after:
ftp://ftp.algo-hk.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.fica.com/

Yeah, someone on Twitter told me today. I just located my compressed archive and I am going to upload the entire thing from October 2015 to the Internet Archive later this week. Same person also told me I am now the only one that has the directory.

This is the entire FTP archive from late 2015. Some point after that, they uploaded some Windows 10 factory images for some newer machines to the FTP server. However, I never updated the archive as they were over 9GB each in size.

Edit: Should be done Wednesday at the earliest (assuming nothing else happens). Would've been done Monday, but I goofed somewhere on the upload form, and it also 403'd. I'll bump this thread when it uploads successfully.

Edit 2: Was using another laptop and wired connection to upload this; took two days. It's somehow faster with Wi-Fi...? 🤨 If so, then Tuesday...

AmiSapphire wrote on 2020-03-14, 21:59:

Yeah, someone on Twitter told me today. I just located my compressed archive and I am going to upload the entire thing from October 2015 to the Internet Archive later this week. Same person also told me I am now the only one that has the directory.

This is the entire FTP archive from late 2015. Some point after that, they uploaded some Windows 10 factory images for some newer machines to the FTP server. However, I never updated the archive as they were over 9GB each in size.

thanks for sharing, It is good to know that someone made a backup.
I am looking for a bunch of original CD motherboard images and it is tough, specially when the companies dissapear and their sites get taken down, like soyo, epox, abit.

Still we have great vogons users that share the image if they got the cd motherboard for that model.

I read Intel also took down many of their drivers. So in the future we depend on each other to get drivers and documentation. 😀

The FTP archive is uploaded on the Archive here: https://archive.org/details/ftp.fic.com.tw-20151022

Why I archived it in the first place (and it's a weird one): I bought a FIC PA-2013 rev. 2.1 motherboard in 2014, got that, then downloaded some things for the board from their server. Before that, I owned a FIC FA15T board (RIP). Then, for some reason in October 2015, I was going to mirror their entire FTP server.

I also have a (very incomplete) AOpen FTP mirror from the same year, but it's not much of a priority right now.

Thanks !

Massive kudos!

I was also using the site a few months back for some 486 BIOS.

Thanks for archiving that. I know I have a bunch of FIC boards that I have not gotten to yet.

What other FTP sites have been lost? I know I would like to find the old Gateway support site.

Great, thank you! I happen to own the FIC SD-11 Slot A mainboard (the one with the funky layout that looks like it was some sort of prototype). Glad to see all the files archived!

AmiSapphire wrote on 2020-03-17, 04:24:

I also have a (very incomplete) AOpen FTP mirror from the same year, but it's not much of a priority right now.

there's a ton of stuff on the AOpen FTP, and it could go dark any day now - might want to back that one up too

maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-03-17, 15:34:

AmiSapphire wrote on 2020-03-17, 04:24:

I also have a (very incomplete) AOpen FTP mirror from the same year, but it's not much of a priority right now.

there's a ton of stuff on the AOpen FTP, and it could go dark any day now - might want to back that one up too

Yeah, my backup stops at /pub02/drivers/ somewhere and I stopped since because the TW server would throttle at 12Kb/s then stop at random. Then I would alternate between AOpen's four FTP mirrors for the data. I was almost done with pub02, too...

What I have now for AOpen's FTP server seems to be nearly 50GB now. I should grab /pub03/ before getting the rest of /pub02/, but I will have to find another machine to continue this process from.

I've started to back it up entirely.

I've also backed up Acer's european FTP, but I don't know how to send it to archive.org, the web based thing crashes and I'm not sure to understand the command line based instructions correctly ...

I think we should make a thread dedicated to backing up old FTPs/drivers, or a thread listing every FTP backup topic.

Deksor wrote on 2020-03-17, 18:28:

I've started to back it up entirely.

I've also backed up Acer's european FTP, but I don't know how to send it to archive.org, the web based thing crashes and I'm not sure to understand the command line based instructions correctly ...

I think we should make a thread dedicated to backing up old FTPs/drivers, or a thread listing every FTP backup topic.

When I backed up the Sony ftp and then uploaded it to archive.org, I had to break the archive into a bunch of different .zip files because it can only handle so big of a file.

Well Acer's euro FTP is 450GB large so that's not going to happen either x)
People managed to send huge files (similar size), I'm sure there's a way to do it without cutting the archives !

Deksor wrote on 2020-03-17, 19:00:

Well Acer's euro FTP is 450GB large so that's not going to happen either x)
People managed to send huge files (similar size), I'm sure there's a way to do it without cutting the archives !

I can download and upload that much no problem. Yay for unlimited data and a fast-ish connection.

When I downloaded the Sony ftp, it took a multiple days to download everything and then 4 days nonstop to upload to archive.org.
106 .zip files that are about 4.4GB each.

https://archive.org/details/ftp.vaio-link.com

Way better to split into multiple .zip files than to have to download the whole thing all at once.

It isn't manually split, I specified the size per file in 7-Zip and just let it do it's thing. You have to have all the files downloaded before you extract.

Well I have started to split the files into 4GB zip files ... it's going to take over 6 hours.

Meanwhile I have downloaded 60GB from Aopen's FTP so far.

Aopen's FTP is 90GB large. Currently turning into a tar archive. Now I'm uploading the 104 zip file I made yesterday ^^

Well I still have this error message "there was a network error" and I have to start all over again ... hurray

gex85 wrote on 2020-03-17, 15:18:

Great, thank you! I happen to own the FIC SD-11 Slot A mainboard (the one with the funky layout that looks like it was some sort of prototype). Glad to see all the files archived!

And thank you from me for the exact same reason. I have a FIC SD-11 that I need to test for my 1999 build.

Deksor wrote on 2020-03-18, 10:57:

Aopen's FTP is 90GB large. Currently turning into a tar archive. Now I'm uploading the 104 zip file I made yesterday ^^

hey deksor, nice to see people backing up sites before they dissapear,
im really glad people in this forum is doing it for the purpose of retro-humanity 😁

i remember a while back on the aopen site when i searched for old motherboards i own that the links to the files were not working anymore, i wonder if the fpt got those files
can you share the link of the ftp address of aopen Motherboard drivers?

thanks