Desktop icon begins as FireWire, eventually becomes Time Machine

Can anyone explain this? The drive set up for Time Machine shows the orange FireWire icon on startup. Sometime after that (often a matter of hours) it changes to the blue Time Machine icon.
I put the machine (Mac Pro, OS X 10.5.7) to sleep when I leave it for some time, and wake it (of course) to continue work.
Everything else seem to work fine. I used Time Machine Editor to change the normal backup interval to every three hours.
Thanks,
harv47
Message was edited by: harv47

Hello Scott,
To verify that backupd changes the icon from FireWire to Time Machine, I tried an experiment:
1. Turned machine on. Time Machine drive is external, not powered up.
2. Turned on Time Machine drive. FireWire icon displayed for it.
3. Started Activity Monitor, set it to display Active Processes.
4. Clicked Time Machine, Back Up Now.
5. Activity Monitor showed backupd running. Time Machine icon animation ran.
6. Icon for Time Machine drive did not change.
So the mystery remains.
harv47

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