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Transferring to 76Cx card
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| Cooter 2006-10-23, 10:33 am |
| Can an SD card reader be used to transfer routes, maps, etc. between the PC
and the micro SD card without plugging up the GPS? And if yes, what is the
procedure? I realize the GPS must be registered as the unlocked unit, but
does this process prevent transfer via a card reader? And can the 76Cx use a
2-gig card if and when one becomes available?
Thanks for any help.
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| Jack Erbes 2006-10-23, 10:33 am |
| Cooter wrote:
> Can an SD card reader be used to transfer routes, maps, etc. between the PC
> and the micro SD card without plugging up the GPS?
Yes.
> And if yes, what is the
> procedure? I realize the GPS must be registered as the unlocked unit, but
> does this process prevent transfer via a card reader?
I do on my laptop with a PCMCIA memory card adapter that has a SD card
slot in it. I put the microSD card in the microSD to SD adapter that it
came with (SanDisk retail package with a 1 GB card, then put the SD
adapter in the SD to PCMCIA adapter, then put that in the PCMCIA slot.
On my desktop machine I have SanDisk USB 8-in-1 memory card reader and I
also use the microSD to SD adapter with that.
> And can the 76Cx use a
> 2-gig card if and when one becomes available?
We have heard that it will, I don't think that we've actually heard from
anyone that has actually tried one. I'd be very surprised if it did not
work, especially with the major brands of memory cards.
Jack
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| Helge Olav Helgesen 2006-10-23, 10:33 am |
| Hello Cooter,
> Can an SD card reader be used to transfer routes, maps, etc. between
> the PC and the micro SD card without plugging up the GPS?
You can only transfer maps with the reader. (And sometimes tracks when you
save them to the SD card.)
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| Cooter 2006-10-23, 10:33 am |
| Thanks for the quick reply. I am still unsure of something - how do you tell
the MapSource software to look at the card reader rather than the GPS, or is
this shown as an available option?
Thanks again.
Cooter
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| Jack Erbes 2006-10-23, 12:33 pm |
| Cooter wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply. I am still unsure of something - how do you tell
> the MapSource software to look at the card reader rather than the GPS, or is
> this shown as an available option?
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When you choose Transfer from MapSource it looks for and reports all
likely candidates and you can choose any of them. The cards in adapters
are reported removable drives (like E:/Removable Drive) and you just
have to pick the right one.
My 8-in-1 USB adapter has four physical slots that can use a total of 8
different kinds of media. So when I plug that into the USB port I see
four new removable drives. I just have to know which media slot equates
to which drive and pick the correct one.
Or I can fumble through them all drives with Windows Explorer and see
which is which (getting prompted to insert media in the empty slots of
course), their properties, what folders and files are on them, etc. You
can also create folders, add or delete files, and format the media from
Windows Explorer. For formatting, you generally want to choose to use
FAT instead of the default FAT32. FAT is the same thing as FAT16.
Cheers,
Jack
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| Carl Heinz 2006-10-23, 3:33 pm |
| On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:19:20 -0400, Jack Erbes <jackerbes@adelphia.net> wrote:
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>We have heard that it will, I don't think that we've actually heard from
>anyone that has actually tried one. I'd be very surprised if it did not
>work, especially with the major brands of memory cards.
I've got CN NA NT on a 2GB card and it works fine.
Carl
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| Keith G. Powell 2006-10-23, 3:33 pm |
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> Cooter wrote:
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> When you choose Transfer from MapSource it looks for and reports all
> likely candidates and you can choose any of them. The cards in adapters
> are reported removable drives (like E:/Removable Drive) and you just have
> to pick the right one.
>
> My 8-in-1 USB adapter has four physical slots that can use a total of 8
> different kinds of media. So when I plug that into the USB port I see
> four new removable drives. I just have to know which media slot equates
> to which drive and pick the correct one.
>
> Or I can fumble through them all drives with Windows Explorer and see
> which is which (getting prompted to insert media in the empty slots of
> course), their properties, what folders and files are on them, etc. You
> can also create folders, add or delete files, and format the media from
> Windows Explorer. For formatting, you generally want to choose to use FAT
> instead of the default FAT32. FAT is the same thing as FAT16.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jack
I have a 60CSx which came with the complete TOPO GB mapset on a 2GB card.
It can be read/written to via a card reader.
It is formatted with FAT32 (by Garmin)
Why do you suggest the OP format his card with FAT(16)?
Keith G. Powell
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| Jack Erbes 2006-10-23, 10:33 pm |
| Keith G. Powell wrote:
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> I have a 60CSx which came with the complete TOPO GB mapset on a 2GB card.
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> It can be read/written to via a card reader.
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> It is formatted with FAT32 (by Garmin)
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> Why do you suggest the OP format his card with FAT(16)?
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You are the first person I know of that got a card with a FAT32 format.
My recommendation was sort of a conservative one. I offered that up
because there have been a few problems reported in the past with CF and
SD cards after they were formatted to FAT32. And that was usually being
done under Windows on PCs.
Also, every memory card I've ever bought (CF, SD, and microSD, all major
brand names) arrived formatted FAT(16). I purchased two SanDisk 1 Gb
microSD cards in the last few months and they were both formated FAT(16).
It works so I ain't going to mess with it. Not for now anyway. If I
remember right, FAT16 hard drives were limited to having 2 Gb
partitions. If applies to memory cards and they get bigger than 2 Gb
I'd probably give FAT32 a try.
Jack
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Jack Erbes wrote:
> Cooter wrote:
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> Yes.
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> I do on my laptop with a PCMCIA memory card adapter that has a SD card
> slot in it. I put the microSD card in the microSD to SD adapter that it
> came with (SanDisk retail package with a 1 GB card, then put the SD
> adapter in the SD to PCMCIA adapter, then put that in the PCMCIA slot.
>
> On my desktop machine I have SanDisk USB 8-in-1 memory card reader and I
> also use the microSD to SD adapter with that.
>
>
> We have heard that it will, I don't think that we've actually heard from
> anyone that has actually tried one. I'd be very surprised if it did not
> work, especially with the major brands of memory cards.
>
> Jack
A 2GB card works in a 60CSx, the electronics don't seem that different.
But surely only the map files and the day by day gpx track files (if
set) are stored on the micro SD. So routes and waypoints cannot be
transfered by card reader.
Ted
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