diff --git a/man4/cciss.4 b/man4/cciss.4
index 3168f1374..b1bcc2590 100644
--- a/man4/cciss.4
+++ b/man4/cciss.4
@@ -182,10 +182,8 @@ A symbolic link to
 .IR /sys/block/cciss!cXdY .
 .TP
 .I /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/rescan
-.\" FIXME The following is not clear. How is the rescan kicked off?
-.\" Do you write something to this file?
-Kicks off a rescan of the controller to discover
-logical drive topology changes.
+When this file is written to, the driver rescans the controller
+to discover any new, removed or modified logical drives.
 .TP
 .I /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/ccissX/resettable
 A value of 1 displayed in this file indicates that
@@ -296,13 +294,14 @@ as SCSI devices to the SCSI midlayer by the
 driver.
 Specifically, physical SCSI disk drives are
 .I not
-presented to the SCSI midlayer.
-.\" FIXME The following sentence doesn't quite parse smantically, and it
-.\" presents multiple ideas. Please rewrite as shorter sentences.
-The physical SCSI disk drives are controlled directly by the array controller
-hardware and it is important to prevent the kernel from attempting to directly
-access these devices too, as if the array controller were merely a SCSI
-controller in the same way that we are allowing it to access SCSI tape drives.
+presented to the SCSI midlayer.  The only disk devices
+which are presented to the kernel are are logical
+drives which the array controller constructs from regions on
+the physical drives.  The logical drives are presented to the
+block layer not the SCSI midlayer.  It is important for the driver
+to prevent the kernel from accessing the physical drives directly
+since these drives are used by the array controller to construct
+the logical drives.
 .SS SCSI error handling for tape drives and medium changers
 The Linux SCSI midlayer provides an error-handling protocol which
 is initiated whenever a SCSI command fails to complete within a
@@ -320,9 +319,6 @@ If that doesn't work, the SCSI bus is reset.
 .IP *
 If that doesn't work the host bus adapter is reset.
 .LP
-.\" FIXME Check the following. There was a very long sentence here that
-.\" was hard to parse. I broke it into 3 sentences. Is the meaning still
-.\" correctly conveyed?
 The
 .B cciss
 driver is a block