External HHDs & compatability with ppc & intel

hi
my whole arrangement is external hhds firewired to a ppc emac - the hhds have partitions for back ups, scratch discs and also one external boot drive.
but....
if i get an intel based mac - like a laptop or something - is there anyway i can access the hhd drives that are connected to my ppc emac - is the compatability issue a big one or are there work arounds
thanks folks
tzzz

something to do with how the hhd needs to be formatted differently for intel compared to ppc
That only applies if you want to use the drive to start up the computer, and you can start up an Intel Mac from a drive in the PowerPC format as long as the OS installed on the drive is compatible with both, which basically requires it be Mac OS X 10.5.
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