HDI-30 question

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Canada-Man

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Hi everyone!

I need to connect an old Apple CD-ROM 300e Plus to my (also old) PowerBook 5300cs and the only HDI-30 cable I have is made to connect the PowerBook to the Desktop mac so that it can be used as an external hard drive.

The difference between the two cables is:

the Disk Adapter has 30 pins (the one I own)
the System Cable has 29 pins (the one I need)

Are they the same (except for the extra pin) and if yes what pin do I need to cut so that my computer will believe it is a System cable ?

Thanks in advance for the info!
 
After a discussion on Apple's forum, we came to the conclusion that the pin #1 (bottom-right) had to be removed. The drive works pretty well... just in case someone's interested...
 
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