Q: Lightning to SD card reader error

The lightning to SD card reader works for my 16GB card, but not the 64 GB (error message: "contents not available, cannot read the connected storage media"). Both are SD Extreme cards. I have tried adding the DCIM folder and formatting via my DSLR camera. It is exFAT format.

Why does one SD card work and not the other?

Thank you in advance for your help!

iPad, iOS 6.0.1, Ipad with retina display

Posted on Dec 10, 2012 6:12 PM

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King_Penguin Dec 11, 2012 12:44 AM in response to Gato308
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Dec 11, 2012 12:44 AM in response to Gato308

With the camera connection kit for older iPads SDXC cards won't be recognised if they are formatted as exFAT, and I assume that the same things applies to the lightning to SD reader - from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4101 :
SDXC (supported only when not formatted as ExFAT)
I assume that the smaller card is not exFAT formatted, so that works ok
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Gato308 Dec 11, 2012 6:05 AM in response to King_Penguin
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Dec 11, 2012 6:05 AM in response to King_Penguin

Thank you, this is very helpful. It would have been nice to have some fair warning by Apple prior to purchasing, but I will try connecting the camera to the ipad directly. You are correct the 16 GB is not in exFAT format.

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