Heavens! I had no recollection of ever trying that! But I guess it did work. Wonder where that adapter is now? The mSATA drive is now in a SATA enclosure in one of the notebook computers here.

But in the 5-years since that was posted, CF Cards have gotten a lot bigger, quicker, and cheaper. And based on recent research/experiments by several of us here in 2019, CF-Cards are the recommended solution. The adapters for those are as cheap as US$2 (eBay).

Cheers