Disklavier

FYI,

My neighbor's children decided to feed the 3.5" drive in my 
disklavier... needless to say, it died.

I took the controller apart (100r), and found a Mitusbishi MF355H-
262MG. After doing a bit of hunting, I found it was pin compatable 
with this drive

http://store.yahoo.com/alan-fm/mf355h-348mn.html

Sure enough, it worked like a charm.

----- Original Message -----

From: a_zoghlin

To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:11 PM

Subject: [disklavier] Found floppy replacement....

FYI,

My neighbor's children decided to feed the 3.5" drive in my
disklavier... needless to say, it died.

I took the controller apart (100r), and found a Mitusbishi MF355H-
262MG. After doing a bit of hunting, I found it was pin compatable
with this drive

http://store.yahoo.com/alan-fm/mf355h-348mn.html

Sure enough, it worked like a charm.



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Yes it does!

Now, keep in mind that Mitsubishi decided to shrink the size of the 
26 pin edge connector for the ribbon cable the last few years. The 
good news is it's still pin compatable. I just spliced the ribbon 
cable apart and soldered it to the new smaller ribbon cable.

Major pain in the butt, but I now have a HD 100xg unit.

The other interesting thing is the unit uses a DX50 daughter card - 
the same card I used to have on my old Creative Labs soundblaster 
card back many computers ago... Still sounds good after all these 
years.

--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, "Ralph Specht" <thespechts@c...> 
wrote:
> Does it now read HD disks also?
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: a_zoghlin 
>   To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:11 PM
>   Subject: [disklavier] Found floppy replacement....
> 
> 
>   FYI,
> 
>   My neighbor's children decided to feed the 3.5" drive in my 
>   disklavier... needless to say, it died.
> 
>   I took the controller apart (100r), and found a Mitusbishi MF355H-
>   262MG. After doing a bit of hunting, I found it was pin 
compatable 
>   with this drive
> 
>   http://store.yahoo.com/alan-fm/mf355h-348mn.html
> 
>   Sure enough, it worked like a charm.
> 
> 
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, a_zoghlin wrote:
> Yes it does!
...
> Major pain in the butt, but I now have a HD 100xg unit.

It actually allows you to read HD disks ? If so it might be worth looking
for a commercial cable to allow the new drive to be used without soldering
and recommending it as an unofficial upgrade for the brave :)

> The other interesting thing is the unit uses a DX50 daughter card -
> the same card I used to have on my old Creative Labs soundblaster
> card back many computers ago... Still sounds good after all these
> years.

I've got a late issue (bought at end of line) MPX1Z (U1) MarkIIXG
disklavier which has a DB51XG inside it (located on the right hand side
underneath near the strings). I guess this is just slight tweaks on the
DB50XG, and maybe consumes less power / generates a bit less noise than
the DB50XG.

Does anyone know whats in the MarkIII series (eg DU1A)? I would be
interested to know what got changed sound generator wise!

Cheers,

James