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authorJason Downs <downsj@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-11-10 21:44:42 +0000
committerJason Downs <downsj@cvs.openbsd.org>1996-11-10 21:44:42 +0000
commitbbfc0f709ae5d0256f1882401edf9dc216e6570e (patch)
treed4a6b11626a1f281836b058de545a332904d9fd4 /share/man/man4/man4.i386
parentdb9bef7fff7e9cb2eadb7fc26010e0567837d8f0 (diff)
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/fdc.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/fdc.4
index 7e744a2a184..dfa528389a5 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/fdc.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/fdc.4
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+.\" $OpenBSD: fdc.4,v 1.4 1996/11/10 21:44:41 downsj Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: fdc.4,v 1.6 1996/03/22 01:55:14 andrew Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 Andrew C. Wheadon
@@ -50,30 +51,20 @@ driver supports the standard AT floppy
disk controllers. These include standard IDE, MFM, RLL,
EIDE, ESDI and SCSI controllers with floppy attachment.
.Pp
-The standard names of a a floppy drive will take the form
-.Nm /dev/fd{0,1,2,3}{,B,C,D,E,F,G,H}[abcdefghijklmnop] .
-.Pp
-The first component of this path is the unit number, permitting
-a total of 4 floppy drives.
-The next component is missing for the default geometry (it
-would be A, but it is ommited for simplicity) and B-H for the
-other 7 geometry types the floppy driver supports.
-The last component of the path is the 16 partitions that a floppy
-disk can support.
-.Pp
-The additional geometry types are as follows:
-.Bl -tag -width xxxxxx -compact
-.It `B' 1.44MB
-.It `C' 1.2MB
-.It `D' 360KB/AT (360KB disk in a 1.2 MB drive)
-.It `E' 360KB/PC (360KB drive)
-.It `F' 720KB
-.It `G' 720KB/x (720KB in a 1.2 MB drive)
-.It `H' 360KB/x (360KB in a 720KB drive)
-.El
-.Pp
-The default geometry is the format specified in the BIOS, and
-is typically the largest supported format.
+When using the
+.Nm fdc
+driver with
+.Nm disklabel
+the last letter is used to indicate the floppy size:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It a: default (probed) geometry of drive, max supported.
+.It b: 1.44MB
+.It c: 1.2MB
+.It d: 360KB/AT (360KB disk in a 1.2 MB drive)
+.It e: 360KB/PC (360KB drive)
+.It f: 720KB
+.It g: 720KB/x (720KB in a 1.2 MB drive)
+.It h: 360KB/x (360KB in a 720KB drive)
.Sh BUGS
The
.Nm fdc