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Re: [disklavier] Re: Bad Floppy Drive

2003-03-29 by Larry McKenzie

I had the same problem with my disk drive in a MX-85. 
Maybe because my 18 month old daughter thought it
needed to be fed chereos years ago.  Anyway, I called
our old friend mark Wisner at Yamaha and he recomended
that if I was too cheap to buy a new drive from Yamaha
(around $100.00) then there were a lot of useable
drives in old Yamaha midi sequencers.  

I went to ebay and bought a old MDR-2 for $12.00, took
the drive out of it and put it in my piano and it
worked great.  Has been going strong for 2 years now. 


Of course I can't guarantee that it would work for
your's but it's a thought.  I looked on ebay just now
and there are no such boxes listed but they do come up
frequently as people clean out their closets.  At the
time he said a drive from a DOU-10 or a QX-3 would
work as well.

Good luck, Larry...


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