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So this is weird. When my daisy-chained firewire Western Digital hard drives are attached to my iMac, the iMac pretty much won't boot. Or it will freeze at the grey screen for 10 to 20 minutes.
I've been booting off an external drive until I can get the suckers to open the iMac and replace a dying hard drive. When I checked Software Update this morning it brought up the OS X 10.6.8 update ...