[Ti] ipod for emergency repairs?

[John]

> With the exception that more recent macs won't boot into OS9.
>
> The question was what benefit is there from having OS9 vs OSX on the 
> ipod
> for emergency purposes?

Or, even a better question:

With all the firewire troubles (800 and 400), why would you even risk 
it?

It would be interesting, as the computer unmounted itself, to see if it 
trashed itself (the boot volume).