Disklavier

If you have a Mark IIXG or Mark III control unit, it can replace the control unit. The DKC-850 does not come with a floppy drive. If you want to connect a USB floppy drive to the DKC-850, Yamaha offers a unit called FD-UD01 USB floppy drive. Most USB floppy drives will not work with the DKC-850. Another USB floppy drive option is the IOMEGA Model 32633 USB floppy drive. This is a very inexpensive unit, but does not come with a bracket for attaching to the bottom of the DKC-850. However, if I was using a DKC-850, I would spend an evening transferring the Yamaha MIDI/ESEQ files that are on floppy to the DKC-850. The DKC-850 has 128 MB of room to store these files. So there is plenty of room in the internal memory of the DKC-850. After transferring the files, I would put the USB  floppy drive in my bench, until I have additional floppy files to transfer.

Bill Brandom
Senior Technical Manager
Keyboard Division
Yamaha Corporation of America
Phone: 714-522-9417 FAX: 714-522-9301



From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of George Husson
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:15 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [disklavier] DKC-850




Does the DKC-850 replace the current control unit? I mentioned to my dealer that I would probably want the floppy disk, before I read that any floppy disk drive would work, and he said that I would have the floppy from the current unit.

Thanks.

George