Someone else with the same problem posted a few months(?) ago, but apparently it was buried in a thread on another subject. At least I can't seem to bring it up with a thread search.

The prospects are rather dismal. There are a few suppliers who claim to have replacement drives, but they seem to just shuffle their feet and grin and say "aw shucks" if you actually call to try to get one. I believe the earlier guy did say that he found a reconditioned one, but don't know where.

Yamaha was pretty emphatic that there is NO WAY to adapt their stuff to any "PC" hardware. It also appears that since they had their own specially configured DD drives, they continued using them in new machines long after the rest of the world had forgotten they existed - so the DD doesn't necessarily mean the unit's obsolete... just broken.

John