Disklavier

Does anyone know if the floppy disk adaptors you can get to allow
smartmedia cards to be used in a normal PC floppy drive will work with a
DKV?

This is the kind of thing http://www.hscus.com/products/flashPath.htm

I'm not sure whether you need a driver for the computer to use it, but if
it appears just like a floppy disk it would be a great way of getting
more storage on the disklavier - imagine how many songs you could get
into a 64 or 128MB card!

I doubt it is possible - does anyone know?

Cheers,

James

Hi

Yes I know. I am affraid it will NOT work for the simple reason that 
the PC needs a driver for it. 
A floppy disk has a special sector on it called the Boot Sector and 
in there are the details of what sort of disk it is 720K or 1.44M.
There is also other information in the boot sector, like how many 
sides does the disk have and how many tracks........

The DKV and any other keyboard / piano would be looking for a disk of 
either 720K or 1.44M and not anything else.

Sorry to dampen your hopes.

I know, because I have one, and have tried.


Midi Magic

 



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, James Fry <groups@j...> wrote:
> Does anyone know if the floppy disk adaptors you can get to allow
> smartmedia cards to be used in a normal PC floppy drive will work 
with a
> DKV?
> 
> This is the kind of thing 
http://www.hscus.com/products/flashPath.htm
> 
> I'm not sure whether you need a driver for the computer to use it, 
but if
> it appears just like a floppy disk it would be a great way of 
getting
> more storage on the disklavier - imagine how many songs you could 
get

> into a 64 or 128MB card!
> 
> I doubt it is possible - does anyone know?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> James

From: "James Fry" <groups@...>

> Does anyone know if the floppy disk adaptors you can get to allow
> smartmedia cards to be used in a normal PC floppy drive will work with a
> DKV?
>
> This is the kind of thing http://www.hscus.com/products/flashPath.htm
>
> I'm not sure whether you need a driver for the computer to use it, but if
> it appears just like a floppy disk it would be a great way of getting
> more storage on the disklavier - imagine how many songs you could get
> into a 64 or 128MB card!
>
> I doubt it is possible - does anyone know?

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Interesting...

For only $24.95US plus shipping, I think that it would be worth taking the
risk worth trying.

You could still use it on another PC or Mac anyway even if it wouldn't work
on the DKV...


Danny

Has anyone tried this adapter to see if it works?  Seems like if it is 
formatted as a typical Disklavier disk, it might then be capable of holding a ton of 
data and be quite a unique solution to the storage problem on a typical 
floopy.   Thanks,   Jim

See post 3139



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, pilotjim99@a... wrote:
> Has anyone tried this adapter to see if it works?  Seems like if it 
is 
> formatted as a typical Disklavier disk, it might then be capable of 
holding a ton of 
> data and be quite a unique solution to the storage problem on a 
typical 
> floopy.   Thanks,   Jim

My concern with this solution is not the ability of the Disklavier to 
read the media.  Rather, my concern is the limitation on the quantity 
of songs the system is able to address (99).  I made a disk with over 
100 short songs on it when I first bought my piano only to find out 
that, once I get to song 99, that's all she wrote.
I don't know whether the newer systems (mine doesn't have a CD) have 
removed the 99 song limitation.

Good Luck,
Scott