Dave Platt wrote:

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Gareth Magennis wrote:

I am in regular contact with the Roland Service Dept. UK. They do not have
a specific solution, though are very helpful. This is, after all, an
obsolete piece of equipment, designed for a 40Gb hard drive, that worked
very well. Shame you can't buy the drives any more.

It would be rather neat, though, to find a working solution!

First possibility: look around for somebody who has a laptop with
a 40-gigabyte 2.5" IDE drive in it. Laptop drives of this size were
fairly common just a couple of years ago, and you may be able to find
one which is still in reasonable working condition. You'd need a new
mounting bracket of some sort (or just double-sided foam tape) and a
small adapter to connect it to a 3.5" drive IDE cable, but it should
work just fine, and its performance will probably be as good or better
than the older 40-gig 3.5" drive that has failed. If you offered the
owner of such a drive a fresh 160-gig 2.5" drive as an even exchange
(that seems to be about the smallest you can buy off-the-shelf these
days) you could probably arrange a deal.

Second possibility: buy an IDE-interface 2.5" solid-state drive...
they're available in 32- and 64-gig capacity these days. Same
physical arrangements as above... mounting arrangement and adapter
cable.


Some 40 & 80 GB recertifed drives he

http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=HDD


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