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From: fjo@ttrdf.UUCP (Frank Owen )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Icon
Message-ID: <698@ttrdf.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 88 17:14:30 GMT
References: <10623@oberon.USC.EDU>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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in article <10623@oberon.USC.EDU>, robiner@ganelon.usc.edu (Steve) says:
> 
> Can anyone out there tell me where the icon for the hard disk is located?
> Someone told me its in ROM, but our Jasmine hard disk has a different icon 
> than the regular Mac HD, so where is it?
> 
> I looked in all the logical places - Finder, System, Desktop, Invisible
> hard disk files, but I can't find it.
> 
> Anyone know where it is?

The hard disk icons are usually hard-coded in the driver for the particuliar
hard disk. The driver is usually located on the low tracks of the hard
disk, not within the normal data area of the disk, or in any particuliar
file.  A copy of the driver is also probably in the resource fork of any
Installer/Formatter program provided by the manufacturer.  The only way to
change the icon would be to search for data that "looks like" the icon
either in the DRVR resource in the Installer/Formatter program or the
driver itself on the hard disk, and change it by alterring the BINARY DATA
with something like MacSnoopy or DiskTools or something like that. 
(can't use ResEdit for this folks!). Most times the icon is located
just after the Pascal-style string that contains the drive's name, so
this makes it a little easier, but all in all, it's not an easy task, 
and can lead to real problems if you screw up. 
I wouldn't try it.
-- 
Frank Owen (fjo@ttrdf)  312-982-2182
AT&T Information Systems
Computer Systems Division, 5555 Touhy Ave., Skokie, IL  60077
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