Hard Disk Icons in OS X

[Charles Martin]

> From: Jeff Rothfus <saranac.tv at worldnet.att.net>
> I'm sure you've seen the icons.  I'm just not describing them properly 
> ...
>
> The "metal" drive icon is the photo-realistic image of a bare hard 
> drive
> which is familiar to all OS X users.
>
> The "white" icon looks like the white case of an external USB floppy 
> and
> is commonly seen as the icon for Disk Copy's mounted disk images.
>
The "bare drive" icon indicates that it is a built-in (internal) drive, 
or is supposed to anyway.
The "white drive" icon indicates that the system believes this to be a 
removable drive (CD, Zip, USB external)
An "orange drive" icon indiciates that the drive is a Firewire drive.


_Chas_

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