Finder is treating all devices as hard drive?

I'm having a weird display bug and I can't figure out what is causing it. It doesn't appear to be a big problem but it is bugging the **** out of me. All my devices show up as the Hard Drive Icon regardless of what it is. USB, Firewire, disk image doesn't matter they all display the same. The only thing I can figure is it might have something to do with a newly added application. The one I'm most suspicious of is 1Password with it's Agile keychain technology. This is just a guess but have not way of knowing. The only other new app I have is Cover Stream and I doubt that would be causing any problems. Any ideas?

So I got this in terminal
MacBook-Pro-Micha:~ michalpasek$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         120.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *120.1 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 B942247B-CD79-4662-AC55-A8F5CB811939
                                 Unlocked Encrypted
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk2
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 PASEK                   1.0 TB     disk2s1
MacBook-Pro-Micha:~ michalpasek$ diskutil mount /dev/disk2s1
Volume on disk2s1 failed to mount
If the volume is damaged, try the "readOnly" option
MacBook-Pro-Micha:~ michalpasek$ diskutil mount force /dev/disk2s1
Usage:   diskutil mount [readOnly] [-mountPoint Path] DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode
Mount will mount the volume in the "standard" place (/Volumes), unless
an optional mount point is specified.

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