Reading Files From A Kodak PCMCIA Memory Card

Linux is a "can-do" OS...

My in-laws recently visited and took some video stills. Their Sony dumped the images into a Kodak PCMCIA memory card as high-resolution JPEGs. My wife wanted one or two of them, so I shoved the card into my Linux-equipped Micron GoBook laptop. Everyone thought I had to have Windows and Kodak software.
Uh-uh... just Linux. :D

General instructions:

To install or perform this, you need to be root (admin, jedi, whatever...); that’s why I show the "#" prompt in the instructions.

If you are logged in as a user ("$" prompt), use the "switch user" command: type su root and then enter your root password at the prompt.

Now, to read the card:

1. As root, create a mount point:
   # mkdir /mnt/mem
2. Insert the PCMCIA card and inspect /var/log/messages to see what device the card is identified as:
   # tail /var/log/messages.
   It should show up as a hard drive, like "hde:hde1":

   ... kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
   ... kernel: hde: SunDisk SDCFB-10, ATA DISK drive
   ... kernel: ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3
   ... kernel: hde: 20480 sectors (10 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=320/2/32
   ... kernel:  hde: hde1
   ... kernel: ide_cs: hde: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
   ... kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
   

3. Now just mount the card as if it was a drive:
   # mount -t auto /dev/hde1 /mnt/mem
4. You should then be able to see files on the card:
   # ls /mnt/mem