Japanese Floppy Driver/Utility Usage Guide
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Japanese Floppy driver (JPFDD.SYS) and utility (FORMAT12.COM) are
used to support access of NEC/Fujitsu/Toshiba 1.2MB floppy diskette
under IBM PC compatible computer environment.
1) JPFDD.SYS :
JPFDD.SYS is a DOS device driver which creates a floppy logical
drive associated with physical drive A:. For example, if you
have one floppy drive A: and one hard drive C:, you will obtain a
logical drive D: when you add a DEVICE command for JPFDD.SYS in
your CONFIG.SYS file.
Syntax
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DEVICE=[drive:][path]JPFDD.SYS [/format]
Parameter
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[drive:][path]
Specifies the location of the JPFDD.SYS file.
Switches
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/format
Specifies the format of Japanese 1.2MB diskette:
N or n : NEC or Fujitsu 1.2MB floppy diskette
T or t : Toshiba 1.2MB floppy diskette
The default value for format is T (Toshiba).
Notes
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Microsoft DOS SMARTDrive has function limitation for floppy
diskette with 1024 bytes per sector such as NEC or Fujitsu type
format. If you use SMARTDRV command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file,
you must disable the disk caching for that logical drive assigned
by JPFDD.SYS /N. For example, if you has logical drive D:
for NEC 1.2MB diskette, you must add one more parameter D-
in SMARTDRV command line to disable D: disk caching. For more
information about SMARTDRV command parameter, please see your
DOS or Windows user manual.
Examples
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To support access of 1.2MB diskette with Toshiba format in your
system, add the following line to your CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE=JPFDD.SYS /T
This command assigns one logical drive letter following the
last physical hard drive letter. You can also create two logical
drives to support NEC, Fujitsu and Toshiba diskettes by
adding two DEVICE commands in your CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE=JPFDD.SYS /T
DEVICE=JPFDD.SYS /N
2) FORMAT12.COM :
FORMAT12.COM is a DOS utility which formats your diskette into
NEC, Fujitsu or Toshiba type diskette. It can also be used to update
your boot files - BOOT.NEC and BOOT.TOS which contain NEC/Fujitsu and
Toshiba boot sector information respectively. When you format diskette
into NEC, Fujitsu or Toshiba type, FORMAT12 will seacrh the current
directory for appropriate boot file to create the boot sector on the
new diskette.
Syntax
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FORMAT12 [/format|?format]
Switches
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?format
Update the BOOT.??? file to have new boot sector information,
where format specifies the type of Japanese 1.2MB diskette:
N or n : NEC or Fujitsu 1.2MB floppy diskette
T or t : Toshiba 1.2MB floppy diskette
The default value for format is T (Toshiba).
/format
Format new diskette into 1.2MB diskette with NEC/Fujitsu/Toshiba
format, where format specifies the type of Japanese 1.2MB diskette:
N or n : NEC or Fujitsu 1.2MB floppy diskette
T or t : Toshiba 1.2MB floppy diskette
The default value for format is T (Toshiba).
Notes
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If you intent to use FORMAT12.COM utility, you must install
JPFDD.SYS to your system.
Examples
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To format a new diskette into Toshiba 1.2MB diskette, type
the following command:
FORMAT12 /T
To update the NEC or Fujitsu boot sector information file BOOT.NEC,
type the following command:
FORMAT12 ?N
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.