Disklavier

I have in my notes that we bought a Lacie Brick Mobile Hard Drive 80GB USB2/Firewire for 
around $129 to use with our Mark IV Disklavier as backup. 

P.S. USB 2.0 capable drives are automatically backward compatible with USB 1.0 hard 
drives.

I made a backup to this hard drive.  The backup contains a ".dbaf "folder which contains 
the files from my backup.  The disklavier somehow knows to look inside this folder and 
retrieve the information need to "restore" to the disklavier if needed.  These files are not 
direct copies of the midi files, but are stored in some sort of file recognizable by the 
disklavier system to use in the "restore" mode.  I believe they do this to keep others from 
moving copyrighted midis to other disklaviers other than the one that was backed up.

I have a lot of notes on our experience with backing up the Mark IV, but may be too 
technical or confusing to introduce on this forum.  If you have any specific questions 
about the backup procedure maybe I can answer those questions.

Hope this helps,
Joan


 --- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "yeloc2" <enquirer@...> wrote:
>
> Can anyone suggest a 60 to 80 gig external usb hard drive that is fat32 
> formatted, so it will work with the disklavier mk4 as a back up? Will a 
> sata hard drive work. I know that it has to be external powered since 
> the mk4 is only 1.1 usb compliant.
> 
> Thanks
>