I have a Floppy Disk drive on a Roland D 20 Synthesizer. It needs, I believe, a floppy drive belt replaced. I was wondering if a device with a floppy disk adapter with an input for USB on it (essentially making a Floppy drive{INPUT PORT} into a USB drive {input port}for connection to an external Floppy disk drive. Or any solution that would allow me to use that floppy drive without replacing the drive belt. Any solution for getting my floppy disks to work without having to take the entire Keyboard apart(to replace the belt drive) would be greatly appreciated.

The Roland G-600 is a keyboard workstation that was released in the late 1990s, and it was designed to use floppy disks as the primary storage medium for saving and loading data. However, it is possible to replace the floppy disk drive with a USB drive using a third-party upgrade kit.

Here are the general steps to install a USB drive in place of the floppy disk drive on a Roland G-600:

Purchase a third-party upgrade kit that includes a USB drive emulator and installation instructions.
Open the keyboard and locate the floppy disk drive.
Disconnect the floppy disk drive from the motherboard and remove it from the keyboard.
Install the USB drive emulator in the same location as the floppy disk drive, making sure that it is securely attached to the keyboard and connected to the motherboard.
Power on the keyboard and follow the instructions included with the USB drive emulator to configure it for use with the Roland G-600.
After installing the USB drive emulator, you should be able to use USB flash drives to save and load data on the keyboard instead of floppy disks. You may not need to update the keyboard after installing the USB drive, but it is possible that some functionality may be added or improved with a firmware update. Check the manufacturer's website or contact their support team for more information on firmware updates for the Roland G-600.

Yes, you can change the drive out yourself if you are a competent repairman. I you want to go to usb, chech ebay. there is a seller there that sells the replacement parts.

I believe this one runs on a rubber band.. is band broken? (usually what goes wrong with these drives on the Roland units). If so, look for those wide rubber bands like at office depot and pop one on it..

Does it work, if you install the disk-drive into a computer?
If not, then the drive is "dead", and needs to be replaced.

That drive has "died". Replace it with any compatible floppy-disk drive.

That drive has "died". Replace it, with any "standard" floppy-drive.

no solution from me but if you want to sell your MV 30 I would love to buy as I have one with a working screen but a non-working floppy drive

Hello,

Yes, from what I understand, it came with a floppy, CD-Rom, and a 40gb hard drive.

Hi.

There is a solution that reads and writes on CF cards. It's call HDM uniflash or something like that.

I didn't try in my xp50, but others says it works.

A bit expensive for my taste, and maybe just for handy hands...

Regards.

Roland G-600 upgrade with Usb Floppy Emulator
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