Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pacbell!att!ttrdc!ttrde!ttrdf!fjo 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 Lines: 29 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 PATH: ...!att!ttrdf!fjo