Hi, can I use my G4 as an external HD connected in anyway?

Hi, Hope you can help me in this....
Can I use my G4 as an external HD connected in anyway to my imac (intel) but in a way that I can see all the HD's that are in the G4?
Similar to a Raid that it lets you see more than one HD at a time.
Also if I have many HDD enclousures how can I connect them to the same port in my imac to have them working in series from each other ?
Do I need to change any of the HD settings? to what? I have 2 SATA 1TB HD, and many more IDE of different memory storage quantity.
Do I need to change anything on the IDE's?
Thank you for your help in advanced....
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Yes and no. PowerMacs are formatted differently in terms of booting. So as a repository for data, they can act as that, but not to boot both Intel Mac and PowerPC Mac from the same partition. If you manage to make one partition GUID, while the other Apple Partition Map, the latter will boot the PowerPC, while the former will boot the Intel. While booted off the PowerPC, it can't see the contents of the Intel though. Target Disk Mode, which means holding the T key down on the QuickSilver at boot, and then hooking it up to the Intel Mac via Firewire is how you will enable the QuickSilver to appear as an external drive. Note, I don't think that Target Disk Mode will show all internal drives. It may only show the boot drive, or any on the logic board's built-in Parallel ATA bus. It is unlikely it will see any SATA drives on a PCI card, but it can't hurt to try.

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Thanks for your reply.<o:p></o:p>
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