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Date:      Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:55:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        seggers@semyam.dinoco.de
Subject:   docs/7967: ncr(4) shall include more chip numbers
Message-ID:  <199809171855.UAA05251@semyam.dinoco.de>

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>Number:         7967
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       ncr(4) shall include more chip numbers
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 17 12:20:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Stefan Eggers
>Organization:
none
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

>Description:

	The ncr(4) man page got out of sync with the huge number of
chips the drive actually supports.  In addition to that it just talks
of NCR though the chips might be labelled with Symbios.  To avoid
confusion I suggest changing the man page as show below.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Read the man page and tell me if you really thing this will
support a Symbios 53C875.  It fortunately does ;-), but is not obious
from the man page.

>Fix:
	
	I just took the numbers the driver spits out during startup
and put them into the man page in the hope that the driver doesn't
claim more than it really can do.  If I'm wrong please don't forget
to tell the driver, too that it doesn't work with a certain chip.

	As I was already changing the man page I changed the
description to "53C8xx family" from a plain "53C810" in the NAME
section.  This is more accurate I think.

Index: ncr.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr2/FreeBSD/CVSROOT/src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/ncr.4,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 ncr.4
--- ncr.4	1997/02/22 13:25:36	1.4
+++ ncr.4	1998/09/17 18:47:28
@@ -28,14 +28,16 @@
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm ncr
-.Nd NCR 53C810 SCSI driver
+.Nd NCR 53C8xx family SCSI driver
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Cd "device ncr0"
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 The
 .Nm ncr
-driver provides support for the NCR 53C810 and NCR 53C825
-SCSI controller chips.
+driver provides support for the NCR/Symbios 53C810, 53C810a, 53C815,
+53C820, 53C825, 53C825a, 53C860,  53C875, 53C875j, 53C885, 53C895
+and 53C896 SCSI controller chips.  Note:  Support for NCR 5380 and
+53C400 is provided by nca, not by this driver.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr cd 4 ,
 .Xr ch 4 ,  
>Audit-Trail:
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