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But I think the original poster was going to take the hard drive out of their
old dead iMac, put it in a firewire case, and use it with their new Mac.
You can't do that. The internal drive is an IDE drive, not firewire.
Of course you can do that. *ALL* external Firewire hard drives are IDE drives in a case that has a FW "bridge" board built into it (often referred to as an "Oxford 911 chipset"). There's no such thing as a true internal FW hard drive, at least as far as I've seen.
PS. I did *exactly* this with my old iMac hard drive (ie, put it in a FW case) and am still using it today!
_Chas_
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