4 pin Firewire to 9 Pin Firewire

Is it possible to connect a camcorder to my new iMac with a 4 pin to 9 pin cable? I have the cable but the iMac won't regognize the camcorder.

so i haven't ever tried it before because I have a MEMORY CARD camcorder. I have some miniDV tapes that i'm trying to transfer in but I can't get the thing to work. I do have power connected up... The apple system profiler doesn't pick the camera up either... not sure what to do..

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