Will a generic card reader work for downloading Garmin GNS 430 updates?

Of course it has to be the correct card type.

Ron Lee

Ron Lee wrote:

Of course it has to be the correct card type.

Are there even generic card readers available for the card types that the
GNS430 database requires? These cards, unlike the B/K KLN database cards,
appear to be proprietary to me.


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Peter

"Peter R." wrote:

Ron Lee wrote:

Of course it has to be the correct card type.

Are there even generic card readers available for the card types that the
GNS430 database requires? These cards, unlike the B/K KLN database cards,
appear to be proprietary to me.

Peter

Good question. I have not determied what type card it is yet.
However, it does appear on the outside to be the same as those in the
Garmin 250 XL(?). Aircraft Spruce sells a reader for whatever type
card that is for about $40 USD. It is not a Compact Flash, SD or xD
card.

Ron Lee

Ron Lee wrote:
Good question. I have not determied what type card it is yet.
However, it does appear on the outside to be the same as those in the
Garmin 250 XL(?). Aircraft Spruce sells a reader for whatever type
card that is for about $40 USD. It is not a Compact Flash, SD or xD
card.

Not sure about the 430 but the G1000 appears to be SD cards. However,
I've not tried to pull one out.
-Robert

"Robert M. Gary" wrote:


Ron Lee wrote:
Good question. I have not determied what type card it is yet.
However, it does appear on the outside to be the same as those in the
Garmin 250 XL(?). Aircraft Spruce sells a reader for whatever type
card that is for about $40 USD. It is not a Compact Flash, SD or xD
card.

Not sure about the 430 but the G1000 appears to be SD cards. However,
I've not tried to pull one out.
-Robert

I just pulled an SD card out of my IPAQ to verify that they are not
identical (GNS 430 card). The AS&S item that supports StreetPilot,
ColorMap, eMap and GPSMap 295 is part # 11-00553. I was incorrect
about the 250 XL but will verify the unit that I compared cards with
today.

Ron Lee

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:53:33 GMT, (Ron Lee)
wrote:

Of course it has to be the correct card type.

AFAICT, the Jepp software which writes the updates requires the Jepp
programmer's firmware to function.

The G1000 version works with standard off-the-shelf Sandisk readers
and SD cards though.

Robert M. Gary wrote:


Not sure about the 430 but the G1000 appears to be SD cards. However,
I've not tried to pull one out.
-Robert

That's because it was done by the ex-apollo guys. The MX20 used a
CF card and the MX200 uses a SD card. It has a copy of the windows
file system on it for the MX20 (it's running NT4.0). The 480 also
uses a standard card / filesystem. Both my units came with a sandisk
reader though my little PCCard reader also works fine.

The 430/530 have a goofy proprietary format.

I just found out that the info I was given yesterday by another pilot
was in error. So it looks like a Jeppesen card reader is the way to
go.

Ron Lee