Intel iMac WD My Book G4 Mac

I have an external 500Gb WD My Book Firewire HD.
It has 2 Firewire ports on the back ( and USB and eSATA).
Is it possible to have it connected to both my Intel iMac and the G4 Mac at the same time ?
I've only just purchased the iMac and I have to transfer data to it from time to time from the G4.
I've been plugging the WD My Book into the G4, saving data to it, ejecting it and then plugging it into the iMac to transfer stuff.
It suddenly dawned on me that maybe I could just leave it plugged into both all the time but as I am new to Firewire drives I am not sure if this will work.
Generally I would only have one of the Macs booted.
I'm not sure what will happen if both are booted at once.
Will the Firewire drive mount on both desktops and be visable/usable by both?
If so do I then need to eject it on both desktops or will ejecting on one cause the other to eject at the same time ?
Humour me please as I am Firewire newbie ;-))
Thanks in advance
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If you have an Airport Extreme - you could also connect your hard drive to it and "share" it over the network. This is an USB connection, but I believe your WD drive has an USB port as well. If you connect it in this way, your Airport Extreme will play a role of a server and have your drive shared over the network. Benefits of this setup are in the fact that you don't need to have booth computers powered up in order to share the drive over the network - in case where you just use computer sharing. Downside of this solution is that the USB data transfer is slow compared to firewire.

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