[X Newbies] Hard Disk Icons in OS X

[Steven Rogers]

On Friday, December 19, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Jeff Rothfus wrote:

> 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.
>
> I presume the "metal" icon should be the boot drive, but on my "good" 
> OS X installation it's not.  In my case, the boot drive shows as the 
> "white"  icon.

Ah - I get it. I don't think the icon is related to which is the boot 
drive. I think that icon is set by whatever formatted the drive.  Both 
my internal drives are "metal".

SR