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va-vid wrote:... 1st removed the 40 GB spinner from the Korg and checked it out with Partition Magic, a partitioning, formatting and recovery program on my Windows 10 machine ...

Correction, I used Partition Wizard, Partition Magic has been obsolete for more than 10 years.

I decided to make a serious effort to make this work. Rather than try to format the SSD with the Korg, I bought a ZIF to SATA converter and 1st removed the 40 GB spinner from the Korg and checked it out with Partition Magic, a partitioning, formatting and recovery program on my Windows 10 machine ...

I was able to communicate with an MR1000 tweaker who said that 9.6V is fine, (less may work too). I then made an adapter cable for my Li ION ext computer battery which outputs 9.6 to 11.2 V. It works great and for a long time. Being battery, it should also reduce the noise floor, but I have not ...

I intend to power from supplemental Li-Ion battery but voltage is not exactly 12V. I don't want the weight of a lead acid battery.