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

[Adam Bower]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:06:21PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:17:38AM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
> > 
> > I've also looked up Toshiba mini-SD cards which also claim to support
> > 2.7V these are supplied with an adaptor that converts them to full size
> > SD, so I've ordered one of each type of card with a capacity of 512MB 
> > which will hopefully be with me tomorrow. I'll let you all know how I
> > get on.
> 
> Toshiba mini-SD card turned up today, GPS says "bad format" and when
> trying to format the card "fail" so that's another one to avoid.
> Hopefully the dane elec card will turn up tomorrow and work :-/

Hmmmn, GPS refuses to format the dane elec card, but after formatting it
in a windows box and putting it in the GPS it appears to work ok (i'm
going to take it out a couple of times later and see what happens). 

After formatting it in the video camera or the digicam it refuses to 
even see the card. I'm starting to wonder if you need to get or tell it 
to format with the right cluster size on cards for the navi gps, and if 
the cluster size is not quite right it isn't happy? I seem to recall 
seeing things in dmesg output on my linux box about invalid cluster 
sizes when trying to read tracklogs off faulty cards in the past....

Adam
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