diff --git a/man4/fd.4 b/man4/fd.4
index ad4ab2388..7a44ffa44 100644
--- a/man4/fd.4
+++ b/man4/fd.4
@@ -24,13 +24,15 @@
 .\"
 .\" 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).