Yes, but some CF cards give a lot of problems. I am using 16 MB CFs, and they are the best for my needs. I had some strange errors with other cards too! If it is bigger than 32 MB you should create partitions, so you will have to boot from floppy.
Have you tried another brand CF cart? Sunrise advises against using CF carts < 32MB because the chance for incompatibilities is much bigger for those. However I can imagine some (cheap-ass ;)) CF carts could still give trouble. If that doesn't work either though I'm rather starting to think along the lines of the CF-IDE being broken.
Oh, and PS, you'd need to initialize the damn thing indeed (floppy drive necessary). If you don't, it might very well execute some random uninitialized code causing the error to appear? Initializing can be done on your MSX2+, because you don't need DOS2 for that (keep DEL pressed to skip loading DOS2, keep INS pressed to skip loading the IDE-BIOS entirely).
~Grauw
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