Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!jm7e+ From: jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Desktop question Message-ID: Date: 22 Nov 89 19:12:56 GMT References: <8911212101.AA09347@trout.nosc.mil> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 20 the reason it makes sense to have both a volume icon and a driver icon is because the machine never knows when you have removed or replaced the disk in the drive. By clicking on the driver, the drive reads the disk and finds out what it is. By clicking on the volume, you get the volume contents. If you swap disks, click on the driver and the volume will be updated to the current one. Further, if you started out with no disk in the drive (leaving only the driver there) you may later insert a disk and click on the driver to put the volume online. the 3.5 drives can detect whether there is a disk in the drive or not, making the above unnecessary. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |Jeremy Mereness | Support | Disclaimer: | |jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my| |r746jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software | opinions, alone. | |a student at Carnegie Mellon U. | | Void where prohibited.| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------