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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: fdformat.1,v 1.20 2018/06/07 11:37:21 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fdformat.1,v 1.21 2018/09/17 15:44:16 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 by Joerg Wunsch, Dresden
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 7 2018 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 17 2018 $
.Dt FDFORMAT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -61,29 +61,43 @@ are meaningless, since they're overridden by
.Nm fdformat .
.Pp
The options are as follows:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
+.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.It Fl c Ar cyls
+Number of cylinders
+.Pq 40 or 80 .
+.It Fl F Ar fillbyte
+Use
+.Ar fillbyte
+as fill byte.
+.It Fl g Ar gap3len
+Length of gap at the end of any sector
+.Pq Dq gap 3 .
+.It Fl h Ar heads
+Number of floppy heads
+.Pq 1 or 2 .
+.It Fl i Ar intleave
+Sector interleave to be used.
.It Fl n
Don't verify floppy after formatting.
-.Pp
.It Fl q
Suppress any normal output from the command, and don't ask the
user for confirmation whether to format the floppy disk at
.Ar device_name .
-.Pp
-.It Fl v
-Don't format; verify only.
-.Pp
-.It Fl c Ar cyls
-.It Fl F Ar fillbyte
-.It Fl g Ar gap3len
-.It Fl h Ar heads
-.It Fl i Ar intleave
.It Fl r Ar rate
+Data transfer rate in kilobyte/sec
+.Pq 250, 300, or 500 .
.It Fl S Ar secshft
+Sector size code: 0 for 128, 1 for 256, and 2 for 512 byte
+sectors.
.It Fl s Ar secs
+Number of sectors per track
+.Pq 9, 10, 15, or 18 .
.It Fl t Ar steps_per_track
-An alternate method to specify the geometry data to write to the floppy disk.
+Number of steps per track.
+An alternate method to specify the
+geometry data to write to the floppy disk.
+.It Fl v
+Don't format; verify only.
.El
.Pp
If the