Firewire video camera

I have a firewire video camera and I just bought the new macbook pro. So I bought a new firewire cable that would fit the camera and the macbook pro. But the computer wont recognize the camera. What am I doing wrong?

benjabock,
OK, you seem to be doing everything right, and your prior experience leads me to believe that you know the ins and outs.
My first guess would be a bum cable, even if it is brand-new. Yes, 4-pin to 9-pin is the correct type. There should be no difference between FW 400 and FW 800, as far as your camera would be concerned. FW 800 is entirely backwards compatible, and simply operates just like FW 400 would when a FW 400 device is connected (in fact, the entire bus defaults to 400 when a slower device is connected).
And all this narrows things down to either the cable, or the ports themselves. I think the most likely scenario is something along the lines of a malformed terminal on one of the cable's connectors, but it could really be anything (a bad wire within the cable itself, etc.).
So, I think some logical troubleshooting is in order. Does this cable work with some other FW 400 device (difficult to answer, since the most likely candidate for this would be a FW drive, which would in turn have a 6-pin port)? Does the FW 800 port on the Macbook Pro work with any other device, FW 400 or 800? Can you try a different 4-pin to 9-pin cable, preferably one by a different manufacturer?
Scott

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