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Old October 24th 06, 01:18 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Ron Natalie
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Default Will a generic card reader work for downloading Garmin GNS 430updates?

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.