How come System Profiler does not list 200+ GB hard disk?

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portante

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Folks,

Under System Profile, my Ultra-Tek133P+ PCI card is listed, but the 189 GB Maxtor 6L200P0 is not listed under ATA drives? The card is listed as an ata type card. And Disk Utility can see the drive and it is usable.

Thanks,

-peter
 
Oh:

Machine Name: Power Mac G4
Machine Model: PowerMac3,5
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.1)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 867 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB
Memory: 1.5 GB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.2.5f1


PDC20269:

Name: Ultra-Tek133P+
Type: ata
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-5
Vendor ID: 0x105a
Device ID: 0x4d69
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x105a
Subsystem ID: 0xad69
ROM Revision: 4.5.0
Revision ID: 0x0002
 
portante said:
Under System Profile, my Ultra-Tek133P+ PCI card is listed, but the 189 GB Maxtor 6L200P0 is not listed under ATA drives? The card is listed as an ata type card. And Disk Utility can see the drive and it is usable.
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The drive is probably listed under SCSI devices. Do you see it there? Some ATA drive adapters (maybe all of them) 'see' the drive as a SCSI device, due to the type of firmware on the drive adapter card, I suppose.
 
And you said you can use it, and it functions OK?
Disk Utility will probably tell you how the system identifies it. Just click on that drive (not your partition name, but the hardware device), and look at Connection Bus for the info that you want.
 
Thanks for the insight. Disk Utility does list it under ATA. So System Profiler is behind the times. Oh well. Thanks.
 
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