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Garmin Data Cards
gorji	#1  Posted on 05/17/09 - 4:28 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 31 Comments: 3 Joined: 05/06/05	Dear Freinds: I am purchasing a Garmin Data Card for my Garmin 276c. Can U use this card in my Garmin 178c which also takes the Garmin Data Card? The 276c is portable and I used it often on other boats where my 178c is not present. Please note that I am not talking about their SD cards. Can I assume that the data on the card will be unaffected by where the card is inserted? I won't be saving any data to the cards. Thank you Gorji
ioptfm	#2  Posted on 05/17/09 - 4:38 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 1533 Comments: 3 Joined: 10/28/06	If it is the same size card it will work.........I have a Garmin 188c and I have used it in several other models with no problem. If it fits in the slot it should work with no problem Tom 1979 Sport 15'
gorji	#3  Posted on 05/17/09 - 5:27 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 31 Comments: 3 Joined: 05/06/05	Thanks. I'd thought that the card may get modified once inserted into the GPS and become not useable in my other GPS.
greenshoe	#4  Posted on 05/17/09 - 6:10 PM
Member Posts: 23 Comments: 0 Joined: 11/26/07	if you go to www.garmin .com site and scrool to the model machine you have it will come up with card it uses .good luck
ioptfm	#5  Posted on 05/17/09 - 6:52 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 1533 Comments: 3 Joined: 10/28/06	gorji wrote: I'd thought that the card may get modified once inserted into the GPS and become not useable in my other GPS. If you look on the card itself you will see a small movable slot like the ones on a SD card that prevents anything from being written on it also. Tom 1979 Sport 15'
gorji	#6  Posted on 05/24/09 - 8:42 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 31 Comments: 3 Joined: 05/06/05	A little update: I purchased Canada East Garmin Data Card (preprogrammed). Inserted into my 276c and beautiful maps showed up. Yesterday went to the boat which is 2 hours away. Put the same card in and my 178c took it but I never got past "reading card" message. I shut the GPS down and restarted. Same issue. The SW version is 2.20 and Basemap Worldwide Marine version is 1.0 I have 2 theories on why it did not work: 1. It need a firmware update; none since 2006 and there have been several although none of the firmware descriptions state its needed to read the card. 2. My 276c put a code into the card so it can only be the GPS reading it. Any thoughts? To do a firmware update I will have to buy a Garmin Data Card Reader (US; another $40. It just does not end!! Thank you Gorji