[MacRick]

First: I'm running a PowerMac 7600/132 (yes, I know it's slow!) with 336 megs of RAM, OS 9.0.4 and the original 1.2 GB internal as startup drive plus a 3.0GB second internal (named HD B) and a 9GB external (named HD C). Whenever I get some data on the external drive, it starts up with the external in the second icon position-in other words-in the middle. It changes position on startup! Does anyone know why or how I can stop it? I've already gone through the "arrange" and "view options" on all three drives and it shouldn't do it. Nothing is set to go by size. Thanks.

[reader50]

Disk icons appear in the order those volumes are mounted in. You might switch the SCSI IDs to try and force a different mount order.

Or you could give the disks non-sequential names. No A,B,C or 1,2,3. Name them:

Mac HD (the startup)
Stupid (the 2nd internal)
Doghouse (the external one)

Or something else, where the mount order will not bother you.