I just built the circuit on a bread board again it has a micro sd broken out to the buffer chp, and the spi lines going to the buffer chip. I tripple checked wiring. Looks ok. Now every once in a while I get -
Can't determine the card size.
Try another SD card or reduce the SPI bus speed.
The current SPI speed is: 2.00 MHz
Edit spispeed in this sketch to change it.
I changed the speed down to quarter, and still nothing. Also tried other SD cards.
I just put a resistor from GND to the middle of the chipselect line, and know it has that same error every time. It initializes. I hope I'm headed in the right direction, but still can't get it past that.