I put the CF into the adapter, and put it in my laptop, dmesg said:

[7282644.736000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[7282645.000000] hdc: SanDisk SDCFH-1024, CFA DISK drive
[7282645.612000] ide1 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3
[7282645.613000] hdc: max request size: 128KiB
[7282645.613000] hdc: 2001888 sectors (1024 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=1986/16/63
[7282645.613000] hdc: cache flushes not supported
[7282645.614000]  /dev/ide/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
[7282645.623000] ide-cs: hdc: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0

Woo, it says SanDisk, not "Unknown" or whatever those dodgy cards say.

I still had the mounting issues that I had with the 32mb card though, it would mount, and then unmount again immediately.