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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-01-05 19:26:27 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-01-05 19:26:27 +0000
commitaa3a597d626088d3981afe63fc8ce3fa018ab386 (patch)
treee94de357decc40fbd55b1d3fe8fec77bf1b03fa5
parent7cbd21092e80f26bf3f17bb80ee3f90e57158e7b (diff)
- replace the mkfs example with a working newfs one, and kill the mkfs Xr
- remove text concerning unsupported character device stuff - remove text concerning unsupported RXIOC* ioctls all of this stuff is from miod
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.vax/rx.473
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 67 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.vax/rx.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.vax/rx.4
index d1b69dce46a..86d5c2aeefa 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.vax/rx.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.vax/rx.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rx.4,v 1.12 2010/01/03 18:13:05 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rx.4,v 1.13 2010/01/05 19:26:26 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: rx.4,v 1.3 1996/03/03 17:14:03 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)rx.4 6.2 (Berkeley) 3/27/91
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 3 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 5 2010 $
.Dt RX 4 vax
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -108,80 +108,22 @@ When the device is opened, the density of the disk
currently in the drive is automatically determined.
If there is no floppy in the device, open will fail.
.Pp
-The interleaving parameters are represented in raw device
-names by the letters
-.Ql a
-through
-.Ql d .
-Thus, unit 0, drive 0 is
-called by one of the following names:
-.Bl -column interleavedxx "Device namexx" "Starting Track" -offset indent
-.It Sy Mapping Device name Starting track
-.It interleaved /dev/rrx0a 0
-.It direct /dev/rrx0b 0
-.It interleaved /dev/rrx0c 1
-.It direct /dev/rrx0d 1
-.El
-.Pp
-The mapping used on the
-.Ql c
-device is compatible with the
-.Tn DEC
-operating system
-.Tn RT-11 .
-The
-.Ql b
-device accesses the
-sectors of the disk in strictly sequential order.
-The
-.Ql a
-device is the most efficient for disk-to-disk copying.
-This mapping is always used by the block device.
-.Pp
-.Tn I/O
-requests must start on a sector boundary, involve an integral
-number of complete sectors, and not go off the end of the disk.
-.Sh NOTES
Even though the storage capacity on a floppy disk is quite
small, it is possible to make filesystems on
double density disks.
-For example, the command
+For example, the following command
+makes a file system on the double density disk in rx0 with
+436 kbytes available for file storage:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
-% mkfs /dev/rx0 1001 13 1 4096 512 32 0 4
+# newfs /dev/rrx0c -s 1001 -b 4096 -f 512 -c 32 -m 0
.Ed
.Pp
-makes a file system on the double density disk in rx0 with
-436 kbytes available for file storage.
Using
.Xr tar 1
gives a more efficient utilization of the available
space for file storage.
Single density diskettes do not provide sufficient storage capacity to
hold file systems.
-.Pp
-A number of
-.Xr ioctl 2
-calls apply to the rx devices:
-.Bl -tag -width RXIOC_GETDENS
-.It Dv RXIOC_FORMAT
-Format the diskette.
-The density to use is specified by the
-.Ar arg
-argument, zero gives single density while non-zero
-gives double density.
-.It Dv RXIOC_GETDENS
-Return the density of the diskette (zero or non-zero as above).
-.It Dv RXIOC_WDDMK
-On the next write, include a
-.Em deleted data address mark
-in
-the header of the first sector.
-.It Dv RXIOC_RDDMK
-Return non-zero if the last sector read contained a
-.Em deleted data address mark
-in its header, otherwise
-return 0.
-.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /dev/rx?xx -compact
.It Pa /dev/rx?
@@ -225,10 +167,7 @@ the device
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr mscpbus 4 ,
-.\" .Xr arff 8 ,
-.Xr mkfs 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8
-.\" .Xr rxformat 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm