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

[Tom Chance]

Ahoy,

On Thursday 21 September 2006 20:17, Adam Bower wrote:
> Right, I think I /might/ have a solution. It turns out that my NaviGPS
> is *incredibly* fussy. I've now got it (seemingly) working with all the
> of the SD cards I own (including the 1GB kingston card that proclaims it
> is 3.3V only that used to freeze the gps solid). The trick is to do a
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc (or wherever the raw device is for the card)
>
> in Linux, then put the card into a windows box and format it which
> creates 1 single partition on the raw device. Then putting the card in
> the NaviGPS and it all "just works".

That's promising :o) Any idea what Windows does that's so magical, for those 
of us without any easy access to a Windows machine?

Regards,
Tom

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