3 machines, 2 chip achitectures, 1 external FW drive?

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Thanks!

I'll have a complete 'direct' backup on another internal drive on the mac pro, so I was hoping to keeo it simple and have three sparse images on the external drive, which will sit along other files, like a rotating backup of my design work.

In this case, do you know whether I'll still need to partition into PPC and Intel? As I understand it, the drive will mount on either machine for reading and writing files, regardles of chip architecture. It only becomes and issue with booting. I guess I was hoping to have the drive formatted with one volume, that all macs can read from.

When you use disk uility to from the install DVD to mount a sparse image (to clone back to a crashed drive) do you actually BOOT that sparse image? Or does SD! just copy the files directlly back to the crashed drive?

I guess the install DVD won't have SD! running on it, so the answer would be no...