Initialization failed with SD card

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arduinonewb13
 
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Initialization failed with SD card

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I'm trying to read the SD card on my Ethernet Shield, but after uploading the example sketch and pressing the "Serial Monitor" button I received an "Initializing SD card...initialization failed..." message. How do I debug this? My Ethernet Shield was ordered from SparkFun btw, so do I use pinMode(4, OUTPUT) instead of the default pinMode(10, OUTPUT)? or do I add a digitalWrite(4, HIGH) command as was suggested on another forum?

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Re: Initialization failed with SD card

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Did you format the SD card using the recommended SD formatting software? learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-micro-sd-br ... ial/format

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