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It's not entirely transparent. The card may or may not have its internal configuration registers set up correctly for your intended application, and you can't configure those through an IDE adapter.
Also those extra 10 pins on the CF card interface aren't just for power. Several of them have to be routed correctly by the host before the card will actually handle IDE properly. For example pin 36 and pin 9 must be tied to VCC and ground respectively or the card will operate in pccard mode. Pin 39 should have a ground switch or jumper option on it so you can select between master/slave, or else it'll probably be hardwired as master which limits your installation options. Some of the cheap chinese adapters can and do screw up the basics. Like shipping with a jumper across a header meant for an activity LED and shorting it.