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fd.4: Various small wording fixes 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
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.\"
.\" Modified, Sun Feb 26 15:00:02 1995, faith@cs.unc.edu
.\"
.TH FD 4 1995-01-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH FD 4 2010-08-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
fd \- floppy disk device
.SH CONFIGURATION
Floppy drives are block devices with major number 2.
Typically they
are owned by root.floppy (i.e., user root, group floppy) and have
are owned by
.I root.floppy
(i.e., user root, group floppy) and have
either mode 0660 (access checking via group membership) or mode 0666
(everybody has access).
The minor
@ -47,10 +49,10 @@ drive number.
than supported by your drive, you may cause it mechanical damage.\fP
Trying once if more tracks than the usual 40/80 are supported should not
damage it, but no warranty is given for that.
Don't create device
entries for those formats to prevent their usage if you are not sure.
If you are not sure, don't create device
entries for those formats, so as to prevent their usage.
.PP
Drive independent device files which automatically detect the media
Drive-independent device files which automatically detect the media
format and capacity:
.TS
l l.
@ -192,17 +194,19 @@ manual page.
.SH FILES
/dev/fd*
.SH NOTES
The various formats allow to read and write many types of disks.
However, if a floppy is formatted with a too small inter sector gap,
performance may drop, up to needing a few seconds to access an entire
track.
The various formats permit reading and writing many types of disks.
However, if a floppy is formatted with an inter-sector gap that is too small,
performance may drop,
to the point of needing a few seconds to access an entire track.
To prevent this, use interleaved formats.
It is not possible to
read floppies which are formatted using GCR (group code recording),
which is used by Apple II and Macintosh computers (800k disks).
Reading floppies which are hard sectored (one hole per sector, with
the index hole being a little skewed) is not supported.
This used to be common with older 8 inch floppies.
This used to be common with older 8-inch floppies.
.\" .SH AUTHORS
.\" Alain Knaff (Alain.Knaff@imag.fr), David Niemi
.\" (niemidc@clark.net), Bill Broadhurst (bbroad@netcom.com).