Disklavier

Paul,
If your new drive from Yamaha is actually blank (doesn't have any of your recovered recordings or anything) then I don't think you have to go through the trouble of cloning it.  As I recall, there is a process by which you can boot off floppy, and using a CD image, you can initialize the hard drive that is in the piano...In this case, you'd install the SSD, and let the piano prepare it for you.  The only downside that I can think of is you'd miss the step that allows you to utilize more space on the SSD.  That might not be important to you.
Hopefully someone chimes it with more information.
But, to answer your other questions...no issues whatsoever...it just works.
-Kevin

    On Friday, February 9, 2018, 8:17:51 PM EST, paujones.pub@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:  
 
     
Folks,

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