MP 1,1-5,1 Volume icon on desktop is gone

[Oma_Ace]

Hello,
I'm running a new High Point SSD7104 in my Mac Pro 5.1 (Mojave). It runs very nice since 2 weeks.
I've got 3 M2 Blades installed. One for system an 2 for data. Suddenly the icon of one of the 2 data drives is not shown on desktop anymore.
Volume ist mounted and appears in the finder sidebar. It works well but the desktop icon for external hard drive is gone.
Does anyone know this issue?

 

[jbarley]

Something to try...
In Finder preferences under Show items on desktop,
try toggling Hard Disks off and on.

 

[Oma_Ace]

Thanks, tried to switch this on and off. In general external drives are shown, only one of the 3 installed drives disapeared but is still mounted and working. Only desktop icon is gone.

 

[TzunamiOSX]

Did you ever change your default icons with LiteIcon or manually? If yes you must disable SIP again.

 

[Oma_Ace]

No I never changed that but it works again. I don't know why but the icon is back.

 

[Oma_Ace]

Update. Icon disapeard again. I figured out when I do a volume repair in the disk utility the icon comes back to desktop. No issues are reported by the disk utility only the icon comes back.But after reboot it's gone again. I tried to go to /Volumes and drag it the desktop but no luck.

 

[KeesMacPro]

You could open that disk and another one with cmd-i , and copy-paste the icon of the correctly shown to the issued one...
Perhaps it works....

 

[Oma_Ace]

Thank you. Already tried that but no luck. When I hit cmd-i there is already the default icon and also in the finder sidebar and everywhere else the volume is listed with the correct icon. Only desktop icon is missing.

 

[KeesMacPro]

I understand.
My idea was to replace the icon.

I suppose you didnt set up some sort of RAID?

 

[Oma_Ace]

No Raid. 3 m2 blades on a Highpoint PCIe card. One is system. Two are for data. System and one data drive are fine with icons on desktop. Just the third is missing. But that's my main drive for projects so I'm little bit afraid that there is a serious issue.

 

[KeesMacPro]

I hope you have a good backup.
You could run DriveDX to check the blade.

... and check if the blade is properly seated.

 

[Oma_Ace]

DriveDX reports no issues. But I think I will reformat the volume and see what happens…

 

[KeesMacPro]

Never heard/read of issues with HighPoints , but if the issue persists you could install the blade in a single m2 adapter card to figure out if it's the HighPoint or the blade...

 

[Oma_Ace]

That's an idea, thanks. I didn't installed the Highpoint drivers because I don't need a raid and it works out of the box. Perhaps it has something to do with it.

 

[14UG]

I’ve got the Highpoint 7505 and I’ve seen volume icons change occasionally. The first time was during the highpoint driver install my custom drive icon was replaced with the generic macOS grey external icon (not sure of the exact one).

Second time was after Mojave 2021 security update 004, one blade out of three in the Highpoint had its icon changed again.

In both cases I just changed it back.

+1 on having a good back-up. I had a corrupt boot disk at one stage with the Highpoint (it appeared to be related to an interrupted Time Machine back-up). So I’m still a bit unsure of it.

mine seemed to be marginally faster without the drivers installed so I will probably uninstall them at some point.

 

[Oma_Ace]

It's very strange. I reformated both drives and now both icons are gone. Now I can copy the icon from the system disk when I hit cmd+i. The .VolumeIcon.icns is placed in the root directory of the volume after that. When I restart finder the icons are back. But after reboot they are gone again. VolumeIcon.icns is still in root directory.

 

[Oma_Ace]

As I said, all volumes are working fine and shown in the finder sidebar. So not a big deal that there are no icons on the desktop. Do you think I have to worry that the volumes will corrupt in the future?