[mkgmap-dev] Haiti OSM problem on Garmin 76CSx

Tue Jan 19 15:03:34 GMT 2010

upgrading to latest firmware will fix it permanently. but don't use the webupdater on OSX it may leave the device corrupted.

On 19 Jan 2010, at 6:59 , andris at inveneo.org wrote:

> Thanks Clinton, that was the fix.  I accessed the device only from the terminal and removed all the dot-files placed on the card by OSX.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Andris
> 
> 2010/1/19 andris at inveneo.org <abjornson at inveneo.org>
> Ah, great...this gives me a great starting point.  thanks for the info!
> 
> Andris
> 
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Clinton Gladstone <clinton.gladstone at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, andris at inveneo.org
> <abjornson at inveneo.org> wrote:
> 
> > However, when I turn off the unit, I
> > get I constant low alarm tone.  The only way to make it stop is to remove
> > batteries.
> 
> This symptom is similar to that caused in certain units (eTrex) when a
> SD card was used which had been previously written o on a Mac OS X
> system. Mac OS copied hidden files to the SD card, which interfered
> with the unit.
> 
> If your SD card has been used in a Mac OS machine, you may wish to
> investigate this.
> 
> Cheers.
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