SD Card Format Issue - SOLVED!

[BryceSteiner]

Since updating to FF6 6.4.2 I have had problems with my micro SD cards not being able to be read by my Mac's, regardless of plugging in the Anafi to read them or using a SD card adapter to read them. I have been transferring to my Linux laptop, then on to a USB stick, then to my iMac. How convoluted is that?

I just discovered that I can no longer format my micro SD cards using the official SD card formatter any more & that was the source of my woes!

What worked for me was to erase & repartition the micro SD cards in my iMac as FAT32 format using Disk Utility, then following through @CTF1414 's instructions in the first message but stopping at step 7! You need to do a "Quick Format" in the Anafi, if you do a "Full Format" in the Anafi it will not be able to be read by a Mac...

I now have my collection of micro SD cards all able to be read by my Mac's (laptops & desktops).

I saw the same thing. I did find that my windows 7 VM in Parallels could read it just fine. For some reason the Mac shows it formatted as "Linux File-Stor Gadget Media" but Windows 7 says it's FAT32. I'll try your suggestions and I bet it will work. Thanks for the insight!

 

[Ahmetb92]

Morning guys! Hope everyone is well.

I just bought my anafi. It’s a refurbished one from ebay by a genuine seller. Everything works fine apart from (you guessed it) the SD card error.

They inlided a 16gb SD card which doesn't look like the one you get from a brand new anafi meaning I can’t use the instructions above! I have a 64gb SD card (in the list) which I use for my GoPro and when I put this in the anafi I still get the error.

Any help would be much appreciated as I am new to this. Thank you!

 

[BryceSteiner]

Morning guys! Hope everyone is well.

I just bought my anafi. It’s a refurbished one from ebay by a genuine seller. Everything works fine apart from (you guessed it) the SD card error.

They inlided a 16gb SD card which doesn't look like the one you get from a brand new anafi meaning I can’t use the instructions above! I have a 64gb SD card (in the list) which I use for my GoPro and when I put this in the anafi I still get the error.

Any help would be much appreciated as I am new to this. Thank you!

Does the 16GB work in the drone? If it does, then I bet you can get your other card to format just fine.

 

[Ahmetb92]

Does the 16GB work in the drone? If it does, then I bet you can get your other card to format just fine.

Nope, the 16gb doesn't work either

 

[dmbrody]

Nope, the 16gb doesn't work either

Have you tried a brand new 8 or 16GB SD card that is on the approved list. It wont cost you much and once you have one working card, then you can get all the others working.

 

[brusa69]

Hello new Anafi owner here!
I can format e Sandisk pro A2 64gb without problems in Anafi and can use it just fine, the problem is that it is unreadable in my macOS. Anafi formatted as exfat and Windows can read it,
If I format exfat in Mac then Anafi won’t use it... any solution for that? I usually format in the drone and never had issues like this before with my other fimi x8 se that use exfat too.

 

[Lizio]

Not a mac user.

If the quick format option in the app doesn't work you could try the procedure outlined in post 13 of this thread.

 

[brusa69]

Solved,
Formatted fat in Mac then quick formatted in Anafi and both Mac and Anafi can use the card that is now fat32.

 

[phitar]

Brilliant indeed, why or how this works is beyond me...

 

[Laurence]

Thanks so much for the help on this guys - its been bugging me endlessly.... I made a short video after the full details were posted

Just formatted my Kingston 64 GB card so this must work across most brands. Thank you

 

[Pari]

Thanks so much for the help on this guys - its been bugging me endlessly.... I made a short video after the full details were posted

Thank you for your post. I tried your method but as soon as I turn off the drone, that formatting page gets closed and I do not see the quick formatting option again. I replace with my desire SD card and choose formatting card but it takes forever to format and never finishes. Any idea on how I can solve this? Thank

 

[Ana789]

Thank you for your post. I tried your method but as soon as I turn off the drone, that formatting page gets closed and I do not see the quick formatting option again. I replace with my desire SD card and choose formatting card but it takes forever to format and never finishes. Any idea on how I can solve this? Thank

Your desired card is?

 

[Pari]

Your desired card is?

It is ScanDisk Extreme, 128 GB

 

[Lizio]

Thank you for your post. I tried your method but as soon as I turn off the drone, that formatting page gets closed and I do not see the quick formatting option again. I replace with my desire SD card and choose formatting card but it takes forever to format and never finishes. Any idea on how I can solve this? Thank

You no longer have to through the card swapping rigmarole. (An update from a while back.)

If you click on the red SD card symbol itself, FF6 will offer both quick format or full format .

I chose quick.

 

[Pari]

You no longer have to through the card swapping rigmarole. (An update from a while back.)

If you click on the red SD card symbol itself, FF6 will offer both quick format or full format .

I chose quick.

Thanks for your response. In fact I chose quick and it took forever to process and it never proceeded.
When I put the SD card in computer directly, it shows the drive but when I want to open it through the drone connecting with USB to my computer, it does not read it.

 

[Ana789]

It is ScanDisk Extreme, 128 GB

I am using a San Disk Ultra 64 GB, succesfull
Trying once a San Disk Extreme 128 GB got me also a "no SD card", no format option.
I'd say the extreme may sometimes not be accepted.
But I am not sure if that is not just b/c of the 128 GB!
I usually aren't using 128 for drones, just tried it once.
Maybe I should try a 64 GB extreme, I think I have on of them, somewhere

 

[Pari]

I solved the issue just now! Quick format was not the answer, Full formatting did the job and now the SD card is read by the drone.

 

[Ana789]

I solved the issue just now! Quick format was not the answer, Full formatting did the job and now the SD card is read by the drone.

I just wanted to write that I proved myself wrong, this morning.
I couldn't find the 64 GB Extreme, but had a unused 128GB in Hand
It just needed formatting, even "quick" did the job in my case.

 

[BirdDog]

Does seem to be a problem with just 128gb cards?

No appened to me with 64GB card and while I was with a client on a shoot.... was a little embarrassing.

 

[Flightjunkie]

This is definitely still an issue.

64gb sandisk extreme and the app would not format until I did this. Had to exit back to main screen after powering off/on, but the formatting worked after swapping sd card with app open and in the sd card section from the main screen (not the flight screen, no option for sd card settings within flight screen).