font color="2200cc" WD MyBook Pro experiences. /font

Hello all, thanks for taking the time to read this.
Discussion on the WD MyBook Premium drive in this thread (link) seems to be reasonably inconclusive. The Premium differs from the Pro due to the FW800 connection and the fact that the Pro does not use WD's own software - hence the different thread.
My MyBook Pro has worked for many months like a charm booting my iMac G4 (FW400) following SuperDuper clones. It also works very fast connected to my Alu iMac 2.8GHz via FW800. However I am unable to boot this Alu Intel iMac via USB2.0, FW400 or FW800. This leads me to suspect that this isn't a WD drive issue but more an issue with booting on the Alu iMacs. I know some people have had success when a FW hub has been in the chain however I do not have such a device. I'd be interested to hear from anyone with their experiences of booting Intel (specifically Aluminium) iMacs from external drives.
I am fully up-to-date on software, iMac Update 1.3 applied, then 10.5.1.
Thanks in advance.
mrtotes

Hi Rick,
Thanks for your post. The problem for me is that troubleshooting in isolation my drive works perfectly with two Macs but will not boot the third, implying an issue with the third Mac, especially given the early Firewire issues with Alu iMacs.
Rather than waste too many of my processor cycles worrying about it I think the WD will probably serve as a TimeMachine drive where booting is not required and I will procure another drive for SuperDuper/cloning use.
I'll leave this thread open to collect other's views.
cheers
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