Disklavier

My floppy drive didn't work after I moved piano (MPX 100 II), looked into new one from Yamaha but price was exorbitant - around $350, and that was installing myself. Getting a tech to install was hundreds more. MIDI ports still worked, so I just used my computer to store, record and play files, which was superior. Than one day I jammed a floppy really hard into the drive a few times and it fixed it! Worth a shot...

Sam Kanter
www.keyboardcollective.com











> On Feb 12, 2016, at 3:56 PM, 'PEOPLES, SAM' SPEOPL200@caledonian.ac.uk [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I think you can still get DD floppy drives from Ebay and other places or an older computer.  I don’t know if an HD drive would work you could try though and see if it works.
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> From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
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> Wow... thanks so much for all the replies so far.  I'll definitely try the bypass method when I get home and report back on whether it worked on my MX100A.  I've also contacted Yamaha, so hopefully they'll get back to me soon with how I can order a new FDD.
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> Sam... I'm pretty sure it's not just a standard FDD.  At the very least, it's only DD (double density), and most floppy drives available now are HD (high density).
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> I'll be sure to report back my progress, and if anyone else has had this problem and successfully repaired it, I'd love to hear from you.
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> ~ Will
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> P.S.  Jeff... are you REALLY responding from an Apple Newton?!?
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