Raymarine C-series owners, a must read.

I did the earlier update on a Memorex CF card successfully, but that same card, with the latest update copied onto it, won't read. Next, tried a 256mb Lexar CF card...wouldn't read. Both formated FAT.

Spent $20 today for a Scandisk 512mb card.....hope it works. Raymarine says to only ScanDisk is guaranteed to work because that's what the system was designed around. Seems they should include a disk with the system when you purchase it.
 
Sealife":qzmp125i said:
Spent $20 today for a Scandisk 512mb card.....hope it works. Raymarine says to only ScanDisk is guaranteed to work because that's what the system was designed around. Seems they should include a disk with the system when you purchase it.
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Yep. Even a 512 mb card may make it choke, Mike. I lucked out and got a cheap 32 mb SanDisk camera card before Target ran out and so far it's worked great.

Don
 
I have Sandisk and Fuji CompactFlash cards, but only the Fuji will allow me to update the ROM. The Sandisk works fine for transfering waypoints and routes. Go figure.

The update worked perfectly for me, as always.
 
The ScanDisk worked. A Memorex and a Lexar did not. I used the Memorex card previously to install the earlier update, but it would not work for this one. Oh well, I can use the cards in my camera.
 
Mines all updated.

A word of advice.... if your having troubles with the install, make sure the disk doesn't have the download attached to a file.

Couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong, then I finally realized what I had done. (if you have it in a folder, it won't auto load when you power up the machine).
 
A CF card is a CF card is a CF card; if they conform to the spec, they'll work. Here's my story:

I had a card from my Canon camera, I cleared off all the pictures, I read the instructions, I put the two files in the root directory, and...

It didn't work. The C-80 just ignored the new card.

I surmised that there might be some residual camera-related data on this several-year-old card that was preventing the Raymarine unit from reading it properly. I decided to format the card, erasing everything on it and starting from scratch.

Once I started down this road, I had a choice about which file system to use: FAT or NTFS. Ah-ha! The problem MIGHT be that the card is formatted with the wrong file system. I went to the Raymarine site to learn what file system they require; it's FAT.

So I reformatted the card using the FAT file system option. Re-loaded the two files, and took the card back to the boat. It upgraded just fine.

So if you've got an otherwise good CF card and you can't get it to work in your Raymarine multi-function display, try reformatting it before you go out to buy a new one.
 
Yeah, yeah. Tried all that.....my camera card was formatted FAT.....still would not work. Only card that would work was the SCANDisk. Raymarine should supply one with their display.
 
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