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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-04-30 12:03:27 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-04-30 12:03:27 +0000
commitd6c3d58fdafacf174f16f405332346d0a7da107e (patch)
treedd2f84a927caa8730d622f5220953d71abb05160 /share/man/man4
parent713068ffe2f09044b98440493e27931b55d5c523 (diff)
a even length -> an even length;
killed whitespace at EOL;
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/man4.hp300/st.420
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/st.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/st.4
index d6cd571a5cb..6e4c9c08711 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/st.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/man4.hp300/st.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: st.4,v 1.12 2003/03/16 20:12:51 miod Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: st.4,v 1.13 2003/04/30 12:03:26 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ driver was written especially to support the Exabyte
.Tn EXB-8200 8MM
Cartridge
Tape Subsystem.
-It has several extensions specific to the Exabyte, but should support other
+It has several extensions specific to the Exabyte, but should support other
tape drives as long as they follow the
.Tn ANSI SCSI-I
specification.
@@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ struct mtget {
.Pp
Bit 4 in the minor device number is used
to select long filemarks or short filemarks.
-A long filemark occupies 2.12 MBytes of space on the tape, while a short
-filemark occupies 488 KBytes.
+A long filemark occupies 2.12 MBytes of space on the tape, while a short
+filemark occupies 488 KBytes.
A long filemark includes an erase gap while the short filemark does not.
The tape can be positioned on the
.Tn BOT
side of a long filemark allowing
-data to be appended with a write operation.
+data to be appended with a write operation.
Since the short filemark does not contain an erase gap which would allow
writing it is considered to be non-erasable.
If either type of filemark is followed by blank tape, data may be appended
@@ -180,10 +180,10 @@ Read requests are normally even length for which a
.Tn DMA
transfer is used.
If, however, the driver detects that an odd length read has happened
-(when a even length was requested) it will issue the
+(when an even length was requested) it will issue the
.Dv EIO
error and the last byte of the read
-data will be 0x00.
+data will be 0x00.
Odd length read requests must match the size of the requested data block
on tape.
.Pp
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ is ok).
One can only start writing at 1) beginning of tape, 2) on the
end of what was last written, 3) "front" side of a regular (long) filemark.
For example, you have a tape with 3 tar files.
-If you want to save the first file, but overwrite the second two files with
+If you want to save the first file, but overwrite the second two files with
new data, on a normal
1/4" or 1/2" drive you would do:
.Pp
@@ -225,8 +225,8 @@ until a
.Tn \*qBLANK CHECK\*q
error is returned.
Writing can be started at this point.
-(This applies to both long and short filemarks.)
-The tape does not become positioned somewhere down the "erased" area as
+(This applies to both long and short filemarks.)
+The tape does not become positioned somewhere down the "erased" area as
does a conventional magtape.
One can issue multiple reads at the
.Tn \*qBLANK CHECK\*q