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

[Adam Bower]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:09:50PM +0100, Tom Chance wrote:

> 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.

Yes, I did have a thought that maybe getting a mini-SD card and putting it
in an adaptor might be a good bet as i think it likely that they'd use
less power than a "normal" SD card given that they are designed for use i
in mobile phones, I also think that they are designed to work with 2.7V
does anyone know for certain before I waste more dosh ;) 

Anyhow, the cards that I have that don't work are:

16Mb card with a Canon label on it, which came bundled with a camera.
1GB card branded Kingston, also has 3.3V written on the sticker.

The cards that sometimes work are:

8MB card branded Canon, another freebie with a camera
256MB card branded Kingston, no 3.3V written on it and says Toshiba on
the back.

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

I have considered this, but it'd mean using Windows (afaik) to get the
logs off the gps, which is far from ideal, I suppose when in the car I
could perhaps hook it up to the laptop running Linux.

Thanks
Adam
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