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 and...@inveneo.org <abjorn...@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.gladst...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, and...@inveneo.org
>> <abjorn...@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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