Disklavier

09/12/2007

Dear All,

The Floppy Disk Drive in control unit DKC100R of my Yamaha Disklavier 
HQ100Wn (serial no. 5244075) is no longer working.   This Floppy Disk 
Drive is model MF355E-492MD from Mitsubishi.    
Can anyone tell me where I can buy a spare unit ?     

I think my Floppy Disk Drive is rather old and will be difficult to find.   
Can anyone tell me what other newer models can be installed in place of 
my old Floppy Disk Drive ?

Thanks for any help.

Surakit

Check this place. maybe they can help with a floppy disk drive.
http://www.hometown.aol.com/mishon66/Drives1.html

urakit.satcharattanachot wrote:

>
> 09/12/2007
>
> Dear All,
>
> The Floppy Disk Drive in control unit DKC100R of my Yamaha Disklavier
> HQ100Wn (serial no. 5244075) is no longer working. This Floppy Disk
> Drive is model MF355E-492MD from Mitsubishi.
> Can anyone tell me where I can buy a spare unit ?
>
> I think my Floppy Disk Drive is rather old and will be difficult to find.
> Can anyone tell me what other newer models can be installed in place of
> my old Floppy Disk Drive ?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Surakit
>
>

Past posts have noted that is not directly compatible with standard ide 
floppy drives. Many DKs have a Panasonic floppy. A while back, someone 
was looking for a replacement drive and it came up that the Panasonic 
has something unique in its settings. I did a search at the time and 
found someone who had access to the Panasonic drives and knew how to 
make the modification to adapt it to older DKs. Maybe there is a dip 
switch or jumpers that need to be set. I have some old 1.44 drrives and 
I see that one of them has a break off tab that makes it compatible with 
an different cable. This may be the solution. If you took your drive to 
a computer shop that has been around since days of old, they might 
recognize the difference. The issue is about density. You model number 
ends in MD. Maybe that means medium density.
Check with these people. They fix floppy drives. 
http://www.mfarris.com/floppy/mitsubishi1.html

Mark in Idaho


Paul J wrote:

>
> Is the floppy dirve special or is it the same as the other gazzilion 
> drives made?
>
>  
>
> paul
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] 
> *On Behalf Of *Mark
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 09, 2007 2:32 PM
> *To:* disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* Re: [disklavier] Replacement for damaged Floppy Disk Drive 
> in DKC100R
>
>  
>
> Check this place. maybe they can help with a floppy disk drive.
> http://www.hometown.aol.com/mishon66/Drives1.html 
> <http://www.hometown.aol.com/mishon66/Drives1.html>
>
> urakit.satcharattanachot wrote:
> >
> > 09/12/2007
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > The Floppy Disk Drive in control unit DKC100R of my Yamaha Disklavier
> > HQ100Wn (serial no. 5244075) is no longer working. This Floppy Disk
> > Drive is model MF355E-492MD from Mitsubishi.
> > Can anyone tell me where I can buy a spare unit ?
> >
> > I think my Floppy Disk Drive is rather old and will be difficult to find.
> > Can anyone tell me what other newer models can be installed in place of
> > my old Floppy Disk Drive ?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Surakit
> >
> >
>
>

The Yamaha part number for this is V6536400. I would call their parts department, they may still have them in stock.

athomik

>urakit.satcharattanachot wrote:
>>
>> 09/12/2007
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> The Floppy Disk Drive in control unit DKC100R of my Yamaha Disklavier
>> HQ100Wn (serial no. 5244075) is no longer working. This Floppy Disk
>> Drive is model MF355E-492MD from Mitsubishi.
>> Can anyone tell me where I can buy a spare unit ?
>>
>> I think my Floppy Disk Drive is rather old and will be difficult to find.
>> Can anyone tell me what other newer models can be installed in place of
>> my old Floppy Disk Drive ?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Surakit
>>
>>
>
>

BTW, you may be able to order it from here:

http://www.yamaha.co.th/service/detail.php?topic=ordering

athomik

On Dec 10 2007, athomik wrote:

>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>The Yamaha part number for this is V6536400. I would call their parts department, they may still have them in stock.

13/12/2007

Hi Mark, 

Thanks, I will check as you advised.   

Surakit


--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Mark <MarkGMID@...> wrote:
>
> Past posts have noted that is not directly compatible with standard ide 
> floppy drives. Many DKs have a Panasonic floppy. A while back, 
someone 
> was looking for a replacement drive and it came up that the 
Panasonic 
> has something unique in its settings. I did a search at the time and 
> found someone who had access to the Panasonic drives and knew 
how to 
> make the modification to adapt it to older DKs. Maybe there is a dip 
> switch or jumpers that need to be set. I have some old 1.44 drrives 
and 
> I see that one of them has a break off tab that makes it compatible 
with 
> an different cable. This may be the solution. If you took your drive to 
> a computer shop that has been around since days of old, they might 
> recognize the difference. The issue is about density. You model 
number 
> ends in MD. Maybe that means medium density.
> Check with these people. They fix floppy drives. 
> http://www.mfarris.com/floppy/mitsubishi1.html
> 
> Mark in Idaho
> 
> 
> Paul J wrote:
> >
> > Is the floppy dirve special or is it the same as the other gazzilion 
> > drives made?
> >
> >  
> >
> > paul
> >
> >  
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* disklavier@yahoogroups.com 
[mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] 
> > *On Behalf Of *Mark
> > *Sent:* Sunday, December 09, 2007 2:32 PM
> > *To:* disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> > *Subject:* Re: [disklavier] Replacement for damaged Floppy Disk 
Drive 
> > in DKC100R
> >
> >  
> >
> > Check this place. maybe they can help with a floppy disk drive.
> > http://www.hometown.aol.com/mishon66/Drives1.html 
> > <http://www.hometown.aol.com/mishon66/Drives1.html>
> >
> > urakit.satcharattanachot wrote:
> > >
> > > 09/12/2007
> > >
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > The Floppy Disk Drive in control unit DKC100R of my Yamaha 
Disklavier
> > > HQ100Wn (serial no. 5244075) is no longer working. This Floppy 
Disk
> > > Drive is model MF355E-492MD from Mitsubishi.
> > > Can anyone tell me where I can buy a spare unit ?
> > >
> > > I think my Floppy Disk Drive is rather old and will be difficult to 
find.
> > > Can anyone tell me what other newer models can be installed in 
place of

> > > my old Floppy Disk Drive ?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> > >
> > > Surakit
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>

13/12/2007

Hi athomik,

Thanks for your advice.

Surakit

Hello to all!!

 

I would like to be able to play "ensemble" midi files using the sound card
in my laptop for the sound module. Anyone know how to do that?

 

I'm running XP SP2, have a EDIROL UM-1ek midi-usb interface. Midi files with
piano only play fine from Yamplayer, but not sure how to set up the sound
card using the internal GS Wavetable for GM sounds? Or is it always
necessary to convert Type 1 to Type 0??

 

I have the complete group of DKUTILS.

 

Thanks for any help,

 

MikeBing

 

 

  _____  

From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 5:32 PM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Replacement for damaged Floppy Disk Drive in
DKC100R

 

Check this place. maybe they can help with a floppy disk drive.
http://www.hometown <http://www.hometown.aol.com/mishon66/Drives1.html>
.aol.com/mishon66/Drives1.html

urakit.satcharattanachot wrote:

>
> 09/12/2007
>
> Dear All,
>
> The Floppy Disk Drive in control unit DKC100R of my Yamaha Disklavier
> HQ100Wn (serial no. 5244075) is no longer working. This Floppy Disk
> Drive is model MF355E-492MD from Mitsubishi.
> Can anyone tell me where I can buy a spare unit ?
>
> I think my Floppy Disk Drive is rather old and will be difficult to find.
> Can anyone tell me what other newer models can be installed in place of
> my old Floppy Disk Drive ?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Surakit
>
>

Greetings MikeBing,

I have not used Yamplayer but I assume that you can direct the output to any MIDI device. You can use MidiOx (use the yoke facility) to connect to multiple devices. You can send the output from Yamplayer to one of the Midi yokes and send the output from MidiOx to both the synth and the piano. You may have to fiddle with volume settings etc to get the piano to not play on the synth but still have it play on the piano. 

Friday, December 21, 2007, 8:22:10 AM, you wrote:

> Hello to all!!
>  
> I would like to be able to play “ensemble” midi files using the
> sound card in my laptop for the sound module. Anyone know how to do that?
>  
> I’m running XP SP2, have a EDIROL UM-1ek midi-usb interface. Midi
> files with piano only play fine from Yamplayer, but not sure how to
> set up the sound card using the internal GS Wavetable for GM sounds?
> Or is it always necessary to convert Type 1 to Type 0??
>  
> I have the complete group of DKUTILS…
>  
> Thanks for any help,
>  
> MikeBing
>  
>  

> From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark
> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 5:32 PM
> To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [disklavier] Replacement for damaged Floppy Disk Drive in DKC100R

>  
> Check this place. maybe they can help with a floppy disk drive.
> http://www.hometown.aol.com/mishon66/Drives1.html

> urakit.satcharattanachot wrote:

>> 09/12/2007

>> Dear All,

>> The Floppy Disk Drive in control unit DKC100R of my Yamaha Disklavier
>> HQ100Wn (serial no. 5244075) is no longer working. This Floppy Disk
>> Drive is model MF355E-492MD from Mitsubishi.
>> Can anyone tell me where I can buy a spare unit ?

>> I think my Floppy Disk Drive is rather old and will be difficult to find.
>> Can anyone tell me what other newer models can be installed in place of
>> my old Floppy Disk Drive ?

>> Thanks for any help.

>> Surakit







>  

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