Nikon D5100 memory card problem

I ran into a problem with the Nikon D5100 when inserting a new unformatted SanDisk Ultra SDHC 16GB memory card. The camera was not able to format the card and claimed that no memory card was inserted. Fortunately, another camera was able to recognize and format the card. After inserting the card back to D5100 the card was recognized by the camera, and allows formatting the card.