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looking for info on usb external hd. i was thinking about a "buslink" 30gb usb hd (i dont have firewire on my imac) anyone know what kind of hd they have inside?

Doesn't matter. It could be that bird from the Flintstones hand-etching the disk and it won't be one iota faster than USB will allow. It's a really bad option EXCEPT for archive storage. Your best bet is to get a huge IDE to swap out your internal.

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i realize the shortcomings of usb and the data transfer rate. speed isnt and issue, i will be using it as storage, (maybe i'll run os9.1 or osX off it so i can burn cd's using itunes), i want to keep os9.0.4 on my imac. i was just wondering if anyone had that specific drive, or knew which internal drive it used

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Yesterday I changed my 4 GB harddisk for a 20 GB.
Although I couln't really find any info on the internet, and after listening to Apple Help line guy (Netherlands) telling me that I should just add an disk in my iMac Bondi Blue (rev A) I cried for a while, went to the very first ordinary peecee shop and bought a Seagate IDE ATA 100 disk, swapped it (after burning several cd's as backup) and placed everything back on it.

Took a while, made two partitions (15 and 5), but for an until now unknown reason, I cannot boot from the second partition.

Any help / explanation about this would be appreciated, and if I find it out myself I'll post it here.

Disks are quite cheap, so I wouldn't even consider an usb-based harddisk, even if speed isn't the issue.