I'm afraid I dont know how to do this, but I do know that there is a drive available which is a direct replacement. If you've found this article it's likely that you have an older EL series organ that has issues with the floppy drive. Yamaha, in their infinate wisdom, chose to use a non standard 3.5" drive that costs £100+ for the early EL series (EL60, EL70 and EL90). Why couldnt Yamaha have used a standard 3.5" PC floppy drive on these organs? Who knows?
Recently this post offered a solution for modifying a standard PC disk drive with a few componants and a bit of soldering, but I dont really want to go this route.
Then I found out about EL-USB, a replacement drive that takes USB sticks. Finding any information about this drive is pretty difficult as most of the sites are in chinese, here is one example: http://www.gangqinwang.com/news.piano?id=4697 . I've also seen the drive on ebay.com.hk but unfortunately the auctions that I found had finished.
If anyone has any information on the EL-USB or are after one as well please post a comment.
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did you find any info regards the usb drive ?, because my floppy drive is acting a little silly,
also do you know where i can get thebutton replacement for the ejector button.
thanks steve
Hi Steve. No new info as yet. I will post something as soon as I can.