FireWire 800 - Not Mac Compatible?

Hi there,
Recently, my sister's 13" MacBook Pro had some hard drive issues and long story short, she bought a new drive to fit in the MBP. Luckily, I managed to snag a complete image of the drive to copy onto the new, larger drive.
To do this, I was just going to use a FireWire 800 cable and target disk mode to copy the image back to the drive through Disk Utility but I don't own such a cable. Cheapest and simplest one I could find was on eBay here;
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FIREWIRE-800-to-800-9-Pin-to-9-Pin-Cable-Lead-/2006249 78688?pt=UK_Computing_FireWire_Cables_Adapters&hash=item2eb62e3b00
First thing that struck me is that it mentions "Not Mac Compatible". It's only the sake of a few pounds but I don't want to end up getting this cable, waiting on delivery and finding it not working. I have an older 800 to 400 cable that I never seemed to get working either, so I'd rather not chance it.
I consider myself rather computer savvy but cannot fathom why the cable wouldn't be "Mac compatible"; a cable is a cable, right?
(I understand some cables have circuitry in, ala Thunderbolt, but wasn't aware FW does/did).
Am I being dumb here or is the guy just playing me for a fool?
- Jamie

According to the manufacturer website - "These cables are designed to be 100% compatible with Apple Firewire."
If you really want to know the compatibility of the cables, call the manufacturer - http://homeavcables.com/32033-15.html

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