First post, by MusicallyInspired
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Not a game problem but rather a hardware problem.
I have 2 HDDs and a CD-ROM. In the 486's BIOS there is only an option to detect the Master and Slave drives. My controller card has pirmary and secondary IDE controllers but the BIOS only wants there to be a primary. There's no mention of a secondary anywhere. I put the 2 HDDs on the primary and the CDROM on the secondary and booted up Win95 and it didn't detect the CDROM. I use a CDROM DOS driver however and it found the CDROM but in Win95 it only operates from the DOS driver so all the long filenames are changes to the DOS equivalents (eg. PROGRA~1 instead of Program Files). This is fine for DOS game CDROMs, but some of my backup CDs are only in long filename mode and WIN95 won't open the directories saying they are 'invalid'.
Is there anyway I can either get my BIOS to detect the secondary IDE controller, get Win95 to detect the secondary IDE controller, or get a DOS driver that supports long filenames?