PPC & Intel backing up on the same hard drive?

Hi alll. I´ve been using time Machine with my iMac G5 for several months without a glitch on an external USB HD.
Now my wife bought a new iMac 20" and we want to use the same USB HD for her backups as well.
Here´s what I did so far:
I partitioned the USB drive in two halves.
Connected it to the G5 and set up the time machine to use une of the partitions.
Then set up the Intel to back up via wireless network to the USB drive connected to the G5.
Both machines started backing up OK but the Intel never finished, the backup remained truncated with a large DMG file with a long name "...bundle... something"
When I reversed the situation and connected the USB HD to the intel it finished the backup instantly (so basically all the files wer already there) but the G5 could not complete its backup. Being the G5´s partition the one with the truncated Backup .dmg File...
Is there any way to do this? how can I make both computers back up on the same drive?
Thanks!

backup drives for intel and PPC macs should be formatted differently. GUID partition map for intel and APM for PPC.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1550?viewlocale=en_US
It could work without doing that but you might run into problems as you did. what partition scheme is the drive using now? try one of the following
1. reformat the whole drive GUID, connect it directly to the intel mac and try backing up the G5 wirelessly.
or
2. format it with APM, connect it to G5 and try backing up the intel mac wirelessly. either way you probably should reformat the drive completely and start from scratch.

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