bigcletus Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix for this? It looks really retarded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagal Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Yes, it is because the drives are seen as external. I just changed the icon to something else for the time being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cohen The Barbarian Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Mine does the same thing on the boot drive, which is a SATA drive in AHCI mode. The Jmicron controller on my motherboard is in IDE mode and the HD attached to it looks like a normal internal drive. Unfortunately, my Leopard install will not boot with the drive on the Jmicron ports...only the ICH8R ports in AHCI mode. If I change them to normal IDE mode, no boot. So it looks like I'm stuck with AHCI mode until a solution is found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 Here's a fix that worked for me. I found it posted in another thread...I think by MacManiac. This corrected my problem but YMMV. To correct hard drive icons incorrectly displayed as external drive icons: Open up Terminal sudo -s <password> enter mv /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns.back cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/Internal.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext reboot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcletus Posted November 25, 2007 Author Share Posted November 25, 2007 that worked perfectly! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alwayon Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 Thanks for the excellent tips. For me, I am using the AppleAHCIPort.kext and IOAHCIFamily.kext from Brazil Mac Leopard and it works perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xristoforos Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Here's a fix that worked for me. I found it posted in another thread...I think by MacManiac. This corrected my problem but YMMV. To correct hard drive icons incorrectly displayed as external drive icons: Open up Terminal sudo -s <password> enter mv /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns.back cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/Internal.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext reboot Thanx a lot for this tip!! I did it in my asus p5k-e and it worked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audio01 Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Changing the icons is not a good fix, because all external removable drives will look just like internal drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsilves Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 Any way to Undo these commands? Disk Utility still says that the disk is external... Not nice. Thanks, Rodrigo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomauty Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 You could always look up patches for your intel chipsets that allow for IDE mode. For instance I have ICH8 and I applied a patch that let me boot into leopard with IDE mode as opposed to AHCI, with either Jmicron or Intel. I have 2 drives in each, so I know they work fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaporATX Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 The reason there is no "fix" for this issue in AHCI mode is there is nothing to fix. If it was a real issue and not just an easily fixed cosmetic one you'd see a fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomauty Posted May 4, 2008 Share Posted May 4, 2008 I understand, but I'm saying if they apply patches to their chipsets that let them boot in IDE mode, the drives will be recognized as internal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsilves Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 Would that kext allow me to use my mobo's IDE connector for a drive? I can use my IDE CD-RW, but I need to use an IDE to USB to connect an old HD. How do I undo the script of the icons? I applied it and now I want to go back. Thanks, Rodrigo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterino Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Here's a fix that worked for me. I found it posted in another thread...I think by MacManiac. This corrected my problem but YMMV. To correct hard drive icons incorrectly displayed as external drive icons: Open up Terminal sudo -s <password> enter mv /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns.back cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/Internal.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext reboot thank you very much ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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