On 19 Jun 1998, Georges Heinesch wrote:

>    Besides this, the BFFSFileSystem behaves somewhat strange when it
>    comes to mounting. "mount SD0D:" doesn't trigger the partition icon
>    to appear immediately. First, an access to this partition has to be
>    done. Then it appears. ACTIVATE=1 is set in the DOSDriver and the
>    DOSDriver icon tooltype.

I can't speak for the rest of your post.  However, the
wait-until-access-appearance of the icons is a bug (feature?) in OS3.x.
All previous revisions worked as any sane person would expect. =(

Justus
Team *AMIGA*