[OSM-talk] Navi GPS SD card woe, any advice?

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Monday 18 September 2006 22:39, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany) wrote:
> On Monday 18 September 2006 23:21, Adam Bower wrote:
> > Only 2 of the 4 SD cards that I own are recognised by the device, of
> > these about 50% of the time when using either of them the GPS writes
> > garbage data to the SD card although the other 50% of the time it works
> > perfectly, unfortunately you don't find out about this until after
> > getting your track logs and trying to pull them off the SD card.
> 
> I don't really know. But what i found 'as a rule of thumb' that the smaller
> the card the better it works. This is the reason I just ordered 'only 512MB
> Cards for the 10 "German-rental-NaviGPS".
>  What I also found is the Toshiba 1GB Cards worked good here. So that is my
> other choice. I had to test about 10 different new cards to get 3 working
> brands+Size. It also doesn't seem to be a matter of Brand only.

I've had this too. A 512MB card I already had didn't work, and I bought 
another that didn't work either - quite an outlay for me :-( If owners could 
post a list of "known to work reliably" cards, or some guide to finding one 
without lots of trial and error running up my overdraft, that'd be 
appreciated.

At the moment I'm running off the internal memory.

Kind regards,
Tom

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