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26 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jens Schweikhardt
57bd0fc6e8 english(4) police. 2002-12-27 12:15:40 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
befa116642 mdoc(7) police: tidy up the markup. 2002-01-10 17:41:22 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
0377dd590e Second round of floppy disk driver documentation updates: document the
changes in the userland utilities.  For fdcontrol(8), i now finally
keep my promise made more than 7 years ago that ``the fdcontrol
utility is currently under development and the user interface will
likely change''. :-)
2001-12-25 21:21:18 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
1a6bed6863 Long promised major enhancement set for the floppy disk driver:
. The main device node now supports automatic density selection for
  commonly used media densities.  So you can stuff your 1.44 MB and
  720 KB media into your drive and just access /dev/fd0, no questions
  asked.  It's all that easy, isn't it? :)

. Device density handling has been completely overhauled.  The old way
  of hardwired kernel density knowledge is no longer there.  Instead,
  the kernel now implements 16 subdevices per drive.  The first
  subdevice uses automatic density selection, while the remaining 15
  devices are freely programmable.  They can be assigned an arbitrary
  name of the form /dev/fd[:digit]+.[:digit:]{1,4}, where the second
  number is meant to either implement device names that are mnemonic
  for their raw capacity (as it used to be), or they can alternatively
  be created as "anonymous" devices like fd0.1 through fd0.15,
  depending on the taste of the administrator.  After creating a
  subdevice, it is initialized to the maximal native density of the
  respective drive type, so it needs to be customized for other
  densities by using fdcontrol(8).  Pseudo-partition devices (fd0a
  through fd0h) are still supported as symlinks.

. The old hack to use flags 0x1 to always assume drive 0 were there is
  no longer supported; this is now supposed to be done by wiring the
  devices down from the loader via device flags.  On IA32
  architectures, the first two drives are looked up in the CMOS
  configuration records though.  On PCMCIA (i. e., the Y-E Data
  controller of the Toshiba Libretto), a single drive is always
  assumed.

. Other specialities like disabling the FIFO and not probing the drive
  at boot-time are selected by per-controller or per-drive flags, too.

. Unit attentions (media has been changed) are supposed to be detected
  now; density autoselection only occurs after a unit attention.  (Can
  be turned off by a per-drive flag, this will cause each Fdopen() to
  perform the autoselection.)

. FM floppies can be handled now (on controllers that actually support
  it -- not all do these days).

. Fdopen() can be told to avoid density selection by setting
  O_NONBLOCK; this leaves the descriptor in a half-opened state where
  only a few ioctls are accepted.  This is necessary to run fdformat
  on a device that uses automatic density selection (since you cannot
  autoselect on an unformatted medium, obviously).

. Just differentiate between a plain old NE765 and the enhanced chips,
  but don't try more; the existing code was wrong and only misdetected
  the chips anyway.

BUGS and TODOs:

. All documentation update still needs to be done.

. Formatting not-so-standard format yields unpredictable results; i
  have yet to figure out why this happens.  "Standard" formats like
  720 and 1440 KB do work, however.

. rc scripts are needed to setup device nodes with nonstandard
  densities (like the old /dev/fdN.MMM we used to have).

. Obtaining device flags from the kernel environment doesn't work yet,
  thus currently only drives that are present in (IA32) CMOS are
  really detected.  Someone who knows the odds and ends about device
  flags is needed here, i can't figure out what i'm doing wrong.

. 2.88 MB still needs to be done.
2001-12-15 19:09:04 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c4d9468ea0 mdoc(7) police:
Avoid using parenthesis enclosure macros (.Pq and .Po/.Pc) with plain text.
Not only this slows down the mdoc(7) processing significantly, but it also
has an undesired (in this case) effect of disabling hyphenation within the
entire enclosed block.
2001-08-07 15:48:51 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
90e655ea4e Perform a major cleanup of the usr.sbin Makefiles.
These are not perfectly in agreement with each other style-wise, but they
are orders of orders of magnitude more consistent style-wise than before.
2001-07-20 06:20:32 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
f247324df7 Remove whitespace at EOL. 2001-07-15 08:06:20 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
015fadf9d7 Add appropriate includes and prototypes; staticize; set WARNS=2. Also
minor Makefile nits.

Submitted by:	Mike Barcroft <mike@q9media.com>
2001-06-26 22:11:13 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
d137c337ae Part #2 of the <machine/ioctl_fd.h> => <sys/fdcio.h> move: handle the
tools in usr.sbin/fd*.
2001-06-06 06:16:19 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
345e52e742 - Backout botched attempt to introduce MANSECT feature.
- MAN[1-9] -> MAN.
2001-03-26 14:42:20 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c73e22c3d4 Set the default manual section for usr.sbin/ to 8. 2001-03-20 18:17:26 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
e97407b4f2 mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro. 2000-11-20 20:10:44 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
726b61ab5f Avoid use of direct troff requests in mdoc(7) manual pages. 2000-11-10 17:46:15 +00:00
Sheldon Hearn
f2e366a105 Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.
2000-03-01 14:09:25 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
32c4102abf Xref to warn(3) which is used instead of perror. 1999-10-17 15:52:26 +00:00
Peter Wemm
97d92980a9 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:35:59 +00:00
Nik Clayton
414a35e60a Add $Id$, to make it simpler for members of the translation teams to
track.

The Id line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;

     .\"    $Id$
     .\"

If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.

Approved by:            bde
1999-07-12 20:12:29 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
f12a14713b .Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS. Use .An/.Aq. 1998-03-23 08:31:20 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
8268bea759 Perror() -> warn(). 1997-09-17 06:30:22 +00:00
Warner Losh
6c3f552a31 compare return value from getopt against -1 rather than EOF, per the final
posix standard on the topic.
1997-03-31 05:11:47 +00:00
Peter Wemm
9136d11989 Update to work under Lite2 includes 1997-03-11 15:57:44 +00:00
Wolfram Schneider
bfd34a4a60 Sort cross references. 1997-01-20 00:03:00 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
256835f230 Minor formatting/style fixes.
Submitted by:	Sandro Sigala <sandro@cat.local.net> as part of PR# 2134
1996-12-09 08:04:55 +00:00
Mike Pritchard
4a8d02835c Fix a bunch of spelling errors in a bunch of man pages. 1996-01-30 13:52:50 +00:00
Rodney W. Grimes
709e8f9ae1 Remove trailing whitespace. 1995-05-30 03:57:47 +00:00
Joerg Wunsch
e9e8f7b79d Import the fdcontrol command. It has been in 1.1.5, but obviously has been lost on its way to 2.0.
This program uses the FD_DEBUG ioctl, which will have to be commited yet.
1994-10-30 18:52:01 +00:00