Samsung 27" monitor doesn't recognize my MacBook Pro

Hi All....I bought a Samsung 27" monitor ( S27B350H ) last night to use with my MacBook Pro laptop.  I connected a HDMI cable from the monitor to the HDMI/DVI adapter then connected it to my MacBook Pro.  Monitor doesn't recognize my MacBook. Why?
The CD that came with the Samsung can only be opened on a Windows machine.  I don't know/do Windows.
There is a floating box on the monitor screen that switches between the word Analog and the word HDMI.
Do I need to do something in the System Preferences > Display section to get the Mac and Monitor to recognize each other?
Appreciate any help or ideas. 
MSW

The Mac does not use Drivers for specific displays, so nothing on that CD will be useful anyway.
Instead, the Mac uses a highly parameterized display driver for each graphics card. When the display identifies itself by name and capabilities, Mac software automatically sets the parameters in the Driver for optimum performance with the stated display capabilities.
The problem comes when a display does not properly identify itself. No picture.
About this Mac > ( More Info ) Graphics & Displays ...
... will show you whether the display has reported it NAME and CAPABILITIES.

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    I'm coming around to the idea that this might be a problem with the SATA cable rather than the drive.
    I currently have the stock drive (Hitachi) back in the macbook. It mounted for a while and was then ejected when I tried writing data to it. System profiler reports that "There was an error while scanning for Serial-ATA devices."
    I was able to mount the same drive in a USB enclosure this afternoon without any problems. Right now, I seem to be having issues with both the Samsung drive and the Hitachi drive - I wasn't suspicious of thr latter because I thought it was failing.
    I found one or two accounts of other people having similar problems that were resolved with a new sata cable.
    How does a cable fail? Could this be my problem?
    Cheers
    //A

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