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authorderaadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>1999-07-25 23:18:43 +0000
committerderaadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>1999-07-25 23:18:43 +0000
commit3677ff91538ccadafe71df84e63b378c55eb7639 (patch)
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parentfirst cut at fga docs (diff)
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clarify
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/atapiscsi.425
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/atapiscsi.4 b/share/man/man4/atapiscsi.4
index f957ac88c87..8079d58df79 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/atapiscsi.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/atapiscsi.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: atapiscsi.4,v 1.1 1999/07/25 15:50:44 csapuntz Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: atapiscsi.4,v 1.2 1999/07/25 23:18:43 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Constantine Sapuntzakis.
.\"
@@ -41,22 +41,25 @@
The
.Nm
driver supports ATAPI (also called IDE) devices such as CD-ROMs, ZIP drives,
-floppy drives, and (eventually) tape drives. All ATAPI devices talk some
-subset of the SCSI protocol. For example, our SCSI
-.Xr cd 4
-driver, with minimal changes, was able to sucessfully control ATAPI CD-ROMs.
+floppy drives, and (eventually) tape drives. All ATAPI devices talk some
+subset of the SCSI protocol. For example, the SCSI
+.Xr cd 4 ,
+.Xr sd 4 ,
+and
+.Xr st 4
+drivers are able to sucessfully control the corresponding ATAPI devices.
.Pp
The
.Nm
-driver acts like a SCSI adapter. Thus, the ATAPI devices connected to
+driver acts like a SCSI adapter. Thus, the ATAPI devices connected to
the system will appear as SCSI devices.
.Pp
-For performance reasons, you should avoid putting an ATAPI device and
-a hard disk on the same cable. Our driver does not support bus release
+For performance reasons, one should avoid putting an ATAPI device and
+a hard disk on the same cable. The driver does not support bus release
and, even if it did, many ATAPI devices do not support it. There is
-only one command outstanding on a cable at a time. For example, if you
-have a hard disk and a CD drive on the same cable, your hard disk
-requests may get queued behind slow CD operations.
+only one command outstanding on a cable at a time. For example, if a
+a hard disk and a CD drive are placed on the same cable, the hard disk
+requests may get queued behind slower CD operations.
.Sh BUGS
Tape devices don't work yet.
.Sh SEE ALSO