HDI-30 to 25 pin cable has wrong gender

[snuci]

I need an HDI-30 to SCSI Centronics cable to connect a SCSI hard drive.

Looking in my pile of cables for an HDI-30 SCSI cable, I found an HDI-30 cable with a male 25-pin connector on the other end.  I also have a normal SCSI Centronics  to 25 pin male connector cable.  Can I just use a 25 pin female to female gender changer or are the pin outs incompatible?

I'm also not sure what the HDI-30 to male 25 pin cable is normally used for.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[finkmac]

That's probably a SCSI Disk mode cable. You'd attach a terminator to that, and then a regular SCSI Cable from that to your Mac to use Disk Mode.

 

[snuci]

Thank fink.  I had planned to use if for the Apple Interactive TV box to try to hook up a SCSI drive to it but now I wonder if I can hook this up and see if I can read the Interactive TV box?  I'll give it a shot when it comes.  In the meantime, I bought another cable on eBay that should be the right one.

Thanks for the reply.  I didn't know you could do that but it kinda makes sense.