SATA HD not recognized in system profiler

Hi, I have just fitted a Sonnet SATA controller card along with a Seagate 500GB harddrive.
Disk Utility recognizes the disk and it mounts.
In System Profiler>PCI Cards the SATA card is recognized but not the Drive is not seen in System Profiler>S-ATA Devices.
Why is this?

Drives connected to PCI controller cards apparently don't show up in Panther's or Tiger's ASP, so that's not an actual problem. Another G4 owner who recently added a Sonnet SATA card posted the same question here.

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      Model:          0x0
      GUID:          0x30E002E0001558
      Maximum Speed:          Up to 800 Mb/sec
      Connection Speed:          Up to 800 Mb/sec
      Sub-units:
    OEM ATA Device 00 Unit:
      Unit Software Version:          0x10483
      Unit Spec ID:          0x609E
      Firmware Revision:          0x110
      Product Revision Level:
      Sub-units:
    OEM ATA Device 00 SBP-LUN:
      Capacity:          931.51 GB
      Removable Media:          Yes
      BSD Name:          disk5
      Mac OS 9 Drivers:          No
      Partition Map Type:          APM (Apple Partition Map)
      S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
      Volumes:
    Leo2:
      Capacity:          931.39 GB
      Available:          215.98 GB
      Writable:          Yes
      File System:          Journaled HFS+
      BSD Name:          disk5s3
      Mount Point:          /
    OXFORD IDE Device 1:
      Manufacturer:          OWC Mercury Elite Pro AL
      Model:          0x0
      GUID:          0x1D202009202C0
      Maximum Speed:          Up to 800 Mb/sec
      Connection Speed:          Up to 800 Mb/sec
      Sub-units:
    OXFORD IDE Device 1 Unit:
      Unit Software Version:          0x10483
      Unit Spec ID:          0x609E
      Firmware Revision:          0x102
      Product Revision Level:          3.AA
      Sub-units:
    OXFORD IDE Device 1 SBP-LUN:
      Capacity:          465.76 GB
      Removable Media:          Yes
      BSD Name:          disk2
      Mac OS 9 Drivers:          No
      Partition Map Type:          APM (Apple Partition Map)
      S.M.A.R.T. status:          Not Supported
      Volumes:
    OSX8:
      Capacity:          465.64 GB
      Available:          357.53 GB
      Writable:          Yes
      File System:          Journaled HFS+
      BSD Name:          disk2s3
      Mount Point:          /Volumes/OSX8
    Unknown Device:
      Manufacturer:          Unknown
      Model:          Unknown
      Maximum Speed:          Up to 400 Mb/sec
      Connection Speed:          Unknown

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