[comp.sys.mac] Ugly SCSI Icon

oster@lapis.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (12/31/86)

The icon of your SCSI device lives in your SCSI driver. The driver gets
read in from the boot blocks of your SCSI device at boot time, so you
won't be able to find it with ResEdit. For this job you need something
more like MacZap or Fedit. You need to find out what the hex numbers of
the icon and mask are and search for and change that string of numbers
iin the driver reinitialization program that should have come with your
drive. (Make a copy of the reinitialization program first! Backup your
hard disk first!) then, reinstall the SCSI drivers with the changed
reinitialization program.

If you don't have a re-initialization program, you could try this by
editing the driver in the boot blocks directly, but if you make a mistake
you won't be able to boot your hard disk, and lacking a reinitialization
program you won't be able to undo your work.

You can't look for an icon resource with the drive picture in it because
the drive picture icon is built into the driver, it is not a separate
resource.

A friend of mine used the above technique. He uses a desktop picture of
a pheasant and plum tree and modified his DataFrame 20 icon into a plum
hanging off the tree.
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