It has been about 8 years or more since I was on the group. My Disklavier worked great for years, then sat unplugged for a few months and would not boot. I figured out how to get the action freed so we could play acoustically and we are finally getting around to getting it working electronically. I did troubleshooting with Yamaha and sent hard drive in. It was bad.
I just received a replacement Hitachi Deskstar drive from Yamaha after a 2-week process to get them to try to reformat and reload my failed hard drive. The new one has not been installed yet. I would like to clone the new drive and convert to an SSD. I saw the messages referring to the IDE to SATA adapter and references to various SSD's. I'm running the latest Yamaha DC2M4 Mark IV software - 4.2.3 I believe, per Martin at Yamaha.
I mostly have Mac's at home (Macbook, iMac and Mac Mini). I assume there might be a USB-to-IDE drive unit and some software to get the SATA drive talking and cloning, but I think I will just take it to the local computer shop and have them do it.
For the local computer tech, are there any known gotcha's or specific things I should get/try/set with the transfer? I assume the new SSD has to be bootable and I will just install the adapter, plug in the data and power cables, get it mounted in a 2.5 - 3.5" conversion frame, and fire it up.
Are Disklavier owners having good reliability with the IDE to SATA/PATA adapters? Any ones that are good or bad?
Are there any other service items inside the computer while I have it out? Like a battery that should be replaced or things like that?
Many thanks and sorry for newbie questions. Paul Jones