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

[Andy Robinson]

Look like clones ready to do battle :-D

Nice work.

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk 

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>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
>Sent: 22 September 2006 10:47 AM
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>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Navi GPS SD card woe, any advice?
>
>On Thursday 21 September 2006 21:44, Andy Armstrong wrote:
>> 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.
>
>I had similar problems, then I found a card which seemed to work right away
>with a single partition on it. I thought that's it; so I did of the
>bootsectors and used it for other cards. In the first time it seems to work
>but then i started to have random errors on some of the cards. So I'm back
>to
>using only the formatting which the NaviGPS does itself. And skipped all
>card
>which cannot be formatted by the NaviGPS itself. It's really annoying, but
>I
>hope I got all my NaviGPS working now.
>
>BTW: For Southern Germany we now do have a set of NaviGPS to borrow too ;-)
> http://www.ostertag.name/osm/NaviGPS/thumbs/TN_480x360_Germany-Set.jpg
>
>
>PS.: CC to the Manufacturer Scytex
>
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