Disklavier

First of all, thank you Phillip for taking the lead in this. This is exactly the type of information that I remain a member of the group looking/waiting for.

As much respect as I have for Bill Brandom and as often as we all know he goes to bat for us, I would believe that he too can only do what Yamaha allows him to do. Thus the black hole. Also I may be way off base with this comment, but isn’t it interesting that until someone else figured out how to run their Disklavier from a PC, did Yamaha immediately come out with the same feature on the very next upgrade to the software. Maybe we all need a little push sometimes. Don’t stop looking for the solution to your error problem.

Second, and to Tom’s point, if there is a lack of known interest in being able to upgrade the HD storage, may I voice my request for a larger drive as well. My drive has but 5 GB left on it and my concern is that if I continue to load to capacity, I know that is when the drive will slow or stop. Plus I would think that Yamaha would ultimately be able to sell more software if the systems had more space.

Third, and forgive my naivety, but could this issue be resolved with an external USB drive. Is it completely possible to add an external 500GB drive and have the Disklavier read from that just as though it were an internal drive? Or is the external drive purely for backup.

Glenn

From: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:disklavier@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Tom Wheeler
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 11:18 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] HDD Upgrade MARK 4

Philip,

I am not an IT person so I can't really answer your question. I can,
however, say that for over two years I have been requesting a larger
HD than the 80 GB HD on my Mark IV. That is a ridiculously small
capacity HD by today's standards and with the fact that Yamaha choses
to store audio on the HD only as .wav files which are huge in size, it
is quite easy to fill up the 80 GB internal HD as I did two years ago.

I have contacted Bill Brandom, U.S. Disklavier Product Manager,
several times and expressed an interest in purchasing a larger HD.
Bill has passed my requests alone to Japan , but, of course, that is
equivalent to sending the request into a black hole. At this point, I
hold out no hope that Yamaha will offer a larger HD for the Mark IV.
Instead, they will come out with a Mark V with a larger HD and charge
to dollar for it!

I have seen little interest on this forum for a larger HD. Apparently
few Mark IV owners store significant amounts of Pianosoft Plus Audio
or Yamaha Smart Piano files (midi piano accompanying CD audio) on
their internal hard drives.

Tom

On Oct 15, 2008, at 1:47 AM, Phil Blah wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> If you are not a tech person then please ignore this message ;-)
>
> I am sick of the slow and small 80gb death star in the mark4, so I
> decided to upgrade the hard drive to a 500GB... it boots and has an
> excellent improvement with seek time as expected plus the obvious
> extra space to store crap. To save myself the time of a fresh
> install etc I cloned the drive, but it errors on startup and so I
> have to do a control-d each time to get past the fsck error.. I also
> tried a file clone (rather than byte per byte). I also tried a few
> different (smaller) drives and each time doing more to preserve the
> exact original partition setup etc.... but the linux OS won't get
> over the error.
>
> I imagine if I installed from scratch it would be ok, i'll do that
> later tonight when I have time... but I don't really want to set
> everything up again and copy my songs etc. I am an experienced IT
> professional but, yes a windows man :p *sorry to those linux guru's*.
>
> So my question is firstly, anyone know the root password so I can
> run fsck manually so it can get over the little error or know how to
> edit the conf to skip and move on at bootup. Otherwise I will have
> to keep on pressing control-d every time I turn on the bloody piano
> lol :p
>
> Has anyone else bothered to upgrade their HD? What's been their
> experience?
>
>; The other question, does anyone know the secret to get into the
> bios, I need to check something out.... I tried lots of things, but
> I imagine it would be something silly like holding down the spacebar
> and open the cd tray or something on turn on... who knows.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Philip
>
>
>
>
>;
>
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