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

[Andy Armstrong]

On 21 Sep 2006, at 20:36, Tom Chance wrote:
> 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?

If it's something to do with the precise layout of a virgin  
filesystem presumably somebody could use dd to capture the contents  
of a just-formatted device and make the file available.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net