CVP 92 Floppy Drive

[BurzinS]

Hello,

Please excuse me if I posted in the wrong forum. This forum appears to have more activity than the repair forum. I'm hoping someone out here can help me.

The floppy in my wife's CVP 92 is only intermittently (and rarely at that) reading disks. Cleaning the drive did not improve the situation. Yamaha wants a $l00+. (I don't remember the exact figure-- my brain turned off when I heard it-- but it was more than 100 USD.) :eek:

Q1. Yamaha indicated that the floppy is proprietary. Hence, the inflated replacement cost. Is this true, or can I use a standard 1.44MB floppy drive?
(Actually, it would be nicer if I could entirely replace the floppy drive with something more modern. :D )

Q2. If the floppy drive is indeed proprietary, can I modify a standard drive to work with the Clavinova? Do the following instructions work for the CVP 92?

http://cowo.supersized.org/archives/24-How-to-replace-a-Yamaha-PSR-5700-Clavinova-CVP-70-CVP-65-CVP-55-floppy-drive.html

Best Regards,
Burzin Sumariwalla

[wally]

There's absolutely nothing proprietary about it, besides their price. I replace the floppy in my CVP-209 with a standard floppy replacement I bought from Office Depot. I think I paid about $20 for it. It's been working perfectly ever since, and that was two years ago.

Best wishes,
Wally

[BurzinS]

Thanks. I will give it a go.

[rpludwig]

I have a similar situation with a CVP-59S. How do you access/remove the drive....?

[n0ukf]

Does the CVP-96 also use a standard PC floppy drive (unmodified drive or cables)? I'm looking at one for a local church that won't read a disk, it detects a disk and asks if I want to format. I haven't tried a cleaning disk in it yet (if I can find where I left it).

Last year I fixed one for the local elementary school that had bad connections on the power supply's output wires. I suppose some of you have checked on the rates that Yamaha (or "authorized service centers") charges for repairs. After hearing that high number, they asked me to look at it, they were very happy and that resulted in the current repair job.

[wally]

Yes, the 96 uses a standard floppy drive, too.