i had a broken imb thinkpad laptap that I took the hard drive out and placed in prs9000 and had no problem with it. So if you can go to a computer repair shop or computer store that would allow you to try a laptop hard-drive... with ability to return it if it didn't work ... that's a possiblity... since 8 gig's should be dirt cheap now ... especically used!

I think the korg pa 80 was a little more sensitive about what it accepted then the prs9000. The pa80 didn't accept the ibm notebook hard drive but the prs9000 did! Gee I have tons of styles and midi's and I don't think I have more the 200 meg's loaded! A floopy can hold 30 or more styles and that's only a meg or so ... so you can see how 30 styles x 200meg is 6,000 styles! And I don't have 6,000 styles loaded yet ... I have a mix of midi's and styles!

So even a 2 gig hard drive would be plenty (30 styles per meg x 1,000 megs = 30,000 styles per gig ...WOW!!!) ... and yamaha can read 8 gig's in 2 gig partions.
I downloaded a 25 meg karake file 9 months ago that had a coulple thousand midi's of good quality ... and there is a program that can convert kar to midi so the prs9000 can display the lyrics.

And with the 5 banks ... you have instant access to 1,250 midis! 250 midi's in a bank!

And with direct access you have about 250 styles from hard drive that is called up in a second, in a directory. OF course you can load different directories like prs2000, cpv209, ect ... but a maximum of 250 styles can be put in any one directory or you don't see the extras.


[This message has been edited by rgtaa (edited 06-12-2002).]