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  • From: Sil Greene <Sil_greene AT unc.edu>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Getting something out of broken Yamaha Synthesizer disk drive
  • Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 14:04:40 -0400 (EDT)


RT makes a good point -- can you still access the drive? If so, his
suggestions might do the trick ... if not, read on...

Best option is to find a data retrieval place that would do a bitwise
retrieval (essentially dd the data off to an image file). I don't know if
anyone offers that service, and the damage to the drive may make the data
unrecoverable. Even if you get an image, drive damage may have corrupted
something.

Once you have an image, you could possibly a) look for an emulator package
that knows how to read Yamaha's format; b) write your own emulator, if
you can get details of the format; or c) get the friendly Yamaha folks to
put the image on a replacement drive.

This may not be the simplest route, or the cheapest. But it seems
theoretically sound to me. Anyone see a hole I missed?

--Sil

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger wrote:

>
> He should of course talk to the closest authorized Yamaha repair
> center, but I seriously doubt they could retrieve the data. Most likely
> they'd just replace the drive and that is it. *If* the drive uses a
> known format you could conceivably send it to a data retrieval place,
> but that's also likely to be expensive.
>
>
> On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 01:17 PM, B wrote:
>
> > I just found out that MSM ("My Sweet Man," aka "spousal unit" aka
> > "Forrest") has a non-working disk drive in his Yamaha SY 99
> > synthesizer that has a most wonderful but not backed-up musical work
> > on it. The disk drive "makes a racket" upon access attempt. (I not
> > only don't know the particular machine, I'm as clueless with synth's
> > as I am with quantum physics. Both of us are *painfully* aware that he
> > should have immediately backed the work onto real and multiple storage
> > options, as it was a really nice piece. Tsk.)
> >
> > He says the only answer he knows is Bull City Sound in Durham, but
> > cash="tight".... Do any of you know any options?
> >

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