Hello,

My nephew was recently given an old Samsung Notemaster 386 S/25, that 
has a 40 megabyte hard drive in it. The BIOS of the laptop, has three 
different possible head and disc configurations for 40 megabyte hard 
drives, but none of these built in settings will work with the drive 
installed.

The drive is marked only with the following information:

Model SHDN3-53725/NO HDD
Serial Number - 9SH4SNB01402

Can anyone steer me onto any sites which make legacy hardware 
information and documents available? Or, does anyone out there actually 
still have a user manual for this drive? Any help getting the drive 
recognized by the BIOS would be appreciated.

The only information I was able to turn up, was a multiple laptop 
review, that included this system when it was new, in an archived 
Compute! magazine article. It was pretty surprising to learn that this 
laptop, with it's very minimal hardware configuration had cost $2000 
when new!

The laptop posts fine, we are able to access the BIOS, and were almost 
able to boot it up from a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk, but it turned out the 
floppy wasn't any good anymore. It did try to load, but got part way 
through, and stopped on a disc read error before it completed the boot.

My computer doesn't have any floppy drives, so I have no way to create a 
new boot floppy, and the laptop has no CD drive either, so we are really 
hoping that with the correct hard drive parameters, it will boot from 
the hard drive.

Later, Ray Parrish

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