Thanks for schooling me on this. My SATA stick is keyed for both M and B connectors. My clearly wrong ASSumption was that if it fits, it works.
Thanks. With that, my car audio system USB input will now get a music library source that that isn't mobile phone dependent.
Returning to my other issue:
Is there any more info I can provide, or is this a known thing that's being worked on and I just need to relax?
Thanks again for your help.