greg@ntvax.UUCP (12/03/87)
Dear fellow mac users :
Here is a interesting question: Hard Drive Icon location ?
A friend purchased a relax harddrive the other day. After spending
the money, he was not to happy about the icon it came up with to indicate
the HD. He came to me and ask me to change it for him. I said, no
problem. 10 minutes with resedit and it is as good as fixed.
Well, after about an hour of hunting around, I gave up. No HD icon.
Checked the finder, system, desktop. This started me to thinking
that if I was to boot off another disk, the HD would still know what
its icon was. Obviously the icon must be on the HD, but where ? I checked
my conclusion by booting off one of my regular startup disks and the HD came
up with the same strange looking icon. So, I checked the init program
for his harddisk (no icon either).
I have a MacBottom and I never even thought about changing the
standard HD icon. However, it is no where to be found. A call
to the good people who sale MacBottom (can't remeber the name of
the company) answered the question about my HD. The MacBottom icon
is stored in ROM as part of the HD package. Interesting.
I havn't heard if my friend has gotten a hold of the relax people.
So, is their a standard way that HD information is stored for HD.
I would think that Apple would have some standard.
1. If not ROM, where on the disk.
2. Can it be changed ?
3. Is the icon stored in the INIT program as code ?
**** I hope someone out there can answer. This little problem has
a real need to be answered. I have also found this to be a good
question for the supposed area guru's. Stumps them everytime so far.
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Greg Jones
Asst Research Systems Administrator
North Texas State University [almost - Univ of North Texas ]
Denton, Tx [my votes is for - Unix of North Texas]
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