Disklavier

Good morning.  I have been a member of this group for a while but this 
is the first time asking a question and I would appreciate your help.

We bought an upright yamaha piano almost ten years ago with a 
disklavier as an integral part of the system (a player piano).  We have 
been unable to get new disks (I bought the right midi disks) that 
already pre-formated to work in the disklavier.  I am wondering if 
there is a step that I am missing.  Please advise.  Thank you.

Depending on which model you have, one or more of the following should do the trick.

1. put a piece of opaque tape over the hole in the disk - opposite to the "write protect" tab. Try reformatting on the piano.

2. if that doesn't work, put the disk in a Windows PC/Laptop and reformat to 720Kb (later disks are formatted to 1.44Mb). You may still need to put the piece of tape over the hole on the disk.

3. if you do manage to get hold of unformatted double density disks, the piano should ask you if you want to format it automatically.

Adrian Thomas

On Mar 9 2007, rsandfer wrote:

>Good morning. I have been a member of this group for a while but this
>is the first time asking a question and I would appreciate your help.
>
>We bought an upright yamaha piano almost ten years ago with a
>disklavier as an integral part of the system (a player piano). We have
>been unable to get new disks (I bought the right midi disks) that
>already pre-formated to work in the disklavier. I am wondering if
>there is a step that I am missing. Please advise. Thank you.
>
>
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Adrian,

 

Thank you for your comment.  Can I ask how you format on the disklavier?
Is there a menu?

 

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From: disklavier@...m [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Adrian Thomas
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 8:58 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Help with DiskLavier

 


Depending on which model you have, one or more of the following should
do the trick. 

1. put a piece of opaque tape over the hole in the disk - opposite to
the "write protect" tab. Try reformatting on the piano. 

2. if that doesn't work, put the disk in a Windows PC/Laptop and
reformat to 720Kb (later disks are formatted to 1.44Mb). You may still
need to put the piece of tape over the hole on the disk. 

3. if you do manage to get hold of unformatted double density disks, the
piano should ask you if you want to format it automatically. 


Adrian Thomas

On Mar 9 2007, rsandfer wrote: 

>Good morning. I have been a member of this group for a while but this 
>is the first time asking a question and I would appreciate your help.
>
>We bought an upright yamaha piano almost ten years ago with a 
>disklavier as an integral part of the system (a player piano). We have 
>been unable to get new disks (I bought the right midi disks) that 
>already pre-formated to work in the disklavier. I am wondering if 
>there is a step that I am missing. Please advise. Thank you.
>
>
>

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I have lots of 720K blank disks available that will
work in the old Disklavier and Pianodisk drives.  They
are new, not used.

Price is ten for $5. plus postage.

Thanks!  Mike

micah_j@...



 

--- rsandfer <rsandfer@...> wrote:

> Good morning.  I have been a member of this group
> for a while but this 
> is the first time asking a question and I would
> appreciate your help.
> 
> We bought an upright yamaha piano almost ten years
> ago with a 
> disklavier as an integral part of the system (a
> player piano).  We have 
> been unable to get new disks (I bought the right
> midi disks) that 
> already pre-formated to work in the disklavier.  I
> am wondering if 
> there is a step that I am missing.  Please advise. 
> Thank you.
> 
>

Adrian Thomas wrote:

> 
> 2. if that doesn't work, put the disk in a Windows PC/Laptop and 
> reformat to 720Kb (later disks are formatted to 1.44Mb). You may still 
> need to put the piece of tape over the hole on the disk.
> 
I've had bad luck with this.  Trying to format the 720Kb even using
the 720Kb settings in a 1.4 capable drive seems to generate buggy
disks.   Use the disklavier module itself to format them.  It's down
there under DISK or the like in the menus.

Hi Adrian and Ron,

From what I understand, if you are going to use a 1.44Mb HD floppy with
the window taped over, as a 720kb DD floppy, start with a HD floppy that
has never been formatted. UNFORMATTED 1.44Mb disks are readily
available. Doing it this way provides a more stable floppy.


Bill Brandom
Senior Technical Manager, Piano Division 
YAMAHA Corporation of America 
TEL (800) 854-1569  FAX (714) 522-9301
E-mail: bbrandom@... 
Web: http://www.yamaha.com 


>>> Ron Natalie <ron.natalie@...> 03/12/2007 7:59:27 AM >>>
Adrian Thomas wrote:

> 
> 2. if that doesn't work, put the disk in a Windows PC/Laptop and 
> reformat to 720Kb (later disks are formatted to 1.44Mb). You may
still 
> need to put the piece of tape over the hole on the disk.
> 
I've had bad luck with this.  Trying to format the 720Kb even using
the 720Kb settings in a 1.4 capable drive seems to generate buggy
disks.   Use the disklavier module itself to format them.  It's down
there under DISK or the like in the menus.





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