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src/etc/etc.i386/INSTALL.ata

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ ATA-3
 
 !  There is much discussion going on concerning merging ATA-3
    with ATAPI.  This will require some kind of "command overlap"
-   capability.  The details of this are consumming much of the
+   capability.  The details of this are consuming much of the
    meeting time.
 
 ATAPI or ATA Packet Interface
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ Basic Questions
    general it is impossible for an ATA-1 host adapter to violate
    the specifications of an ATA-2 device.  It is possible for an
    ATA-2 host adapter to violate the timing specifications of an
-   ATA-1 device but this is not common.  Hoever, host adapter
+   ATA-1 device but this is not common.  However, host adapter
    hardware design errors or software driver bugs can cause such
    a problem.  The result will be corrupted data read or written
    to the ATA-1 device.
@@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ Basic Questions
 
    Be careful when looking at the table below -- the data rate is
    the data transfer rate achieved while transfering the sector
-   or block or sectors.  It is an "instantanous" data rate.  The
+   or block or sectors.  It is an "instantaneous" data rate.  The
    overall data transfer rate for a command includes many time
    consuming events such as the amount of time the host requires
    to process an interrupt.  Note that on many fast ATA drives
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ Basic Questions
    frequently greater than the time required to transfer the
    sector of block of sectors for that interrupt!  It is not
    uncommon for the host overhead to reduce the data rate to 1/2
-   or 1/3 of the instantanous rate shown here.
+   or 1/3 of the instantaneous rate shown here.
 
    The ATA PIO modes are defined as follows:
 

src/etc/etc.i386/INSTALL.chs

@@ -42,13 +42,13 @@ problem".
 Read this so that you understand the possible data integrity
 problem that a WD EIDE type BIOS creates.  Any BIOS that has a
 "LBA mode" in the BIOS setup could be a WD EIDE BIOS.  Be very
-careful and NEVER chage the "LBA mode" setting after you have
+careful and NEVER change the "LBA mode" setting after you have
 partitioned and installed your software.
 
 History
 -------
 
-Changes between this version and the preceeding version are
+Changes between this version and the preceding version are
 marked by "!" at left margin of the first line of a changed
 or new paragraph.
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Version 1 -- First attempt to classify the BIOS types and
 Definitions
 -----------
 
-* 528MB - The maximun drive capacity that is supported by 1024
+* 528MB - The maximum drive capacity that is supported by 1024
    cylinders, 16 heads and 63 sectors (1024x16x63x512).  This
    is the limit for CHS addressing in the original IBM PC/XT
    and IBM PC/AT INT 13H BIOS.
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ must support.
                 +--> to  -----------------+---> device
                      LBA                        (LBA)
 
-* A really new BIOS may also support the AH=4xH in addtion to
+* A really new BIOS may also support the AH=4xH in addition to
    the older AH\0xH calls.  This BIOS must support all possible
    combinations of CHS and LBA at both the INT 13H and ATA
    interfaces:
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ The following explains what is widely accepted as the
 
 An ATA disk must implement both CHS and LBA addressing and
 must at any given time support only one P-CHS at the device
-interface.  And, the drive must maintain a strick relationship
+interface.  And, the drive must maintain a strict relationship
 between the sector addressing in CHS mode and LBA mode.  Quoting
 the ATA-2 document:
 
@@ -694,11 +694,10 @@ BIOS Type 6
    such as host adapter addresses, DMA support, LBA support, etc,
    in the Phoenix defined "FDPT Extension" table.
 
-   Phoenix says this this BIOS need not support the INT 13H
+   Phoenix says this BIOS need not support the INT 13H AH=4xH
-   AH=4xH read/write calls but this BIOS is really an
+   read/write calls but this BIOS is really an extension/enhancement
-   extension/enhancement of the original IBM/MS BIOS so most
+   of the original IBM/MS BIOS so most implementations will probably
-   implementations will probably support the full set of INT 13H
+   support the full set of INT 13H AH=4xH calls.
-   AH=4xH calls.
 
    Support issues:  Currently undefined is how such a BIOS should
    respond to INT 13H AH=08H calls for a drive that is >8GB.

src/etc/etc.i386/INSTALL.dbr

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ DOS FLOPPY DISK BOOT SECTOR
 This article is a disassembly of a floppy disk boot sector for a
 DOS floppy.  The boot sector of a floppy disk is located at
 cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1. This sector is created by a floppy
-disk formating program, such as the DOS FORMAT program.  The boot
+disk formatting program, such as the DOS FORMAT program.  The boot
 sector of a FAT hard disk partition has a similar layout and
 function.  Basically a bootable FAT hard disk partition looks
 like a big floppy during the early stages of the system's boot
@@ -246,11 +246,11 @@ Now pay attention here...
 0000:7C70 CD13        INT     13                   do diskette reset call
 0000:7C72 7279        JB      TALK                 jmp if any error
 
-                              Detemine the starting sector address of
+                              Determine the starting sector address of
                               the root directory as an LBA.
 
 0000:7C74 33C0        XOR     AX,AX                AX is now zero
-0000:7C76 3906137C    CMP     [7C13],AX            number sectros zero?
+0000:7C76 3906137C    CMP     [7C13],AX            number sectors zero?
 0000:7C7A 7408        JZ      SMALL_DISK           yes
 0000:7C7C 8B0E137C    MOV     CX,[7C13]            number of sectors
 0000:7C80 890E207C    MOV     [7C20],CX            save in huge num sects
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ Now pay attention here...
 0000:7D53 0AC0        OR      AL,AL                end of message?
 0000:7D55 7429        JZ      RETURN               jmp if yes
 0000:7D57 B40E        MOV     AH,0E                display one character
-0000:7D59 BB0700      MOV     BX,0007              video attrbiutes
+0000:7D59 BB0700      MOV     BX,0007              video attributes
 0000:7D5C CD10        INT     10                   display one character
 0000:7D5E EBF2        JMP     MSG_LOOP             do again
 

src/etc/etc.i386/INSTALL.linux

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$OpenBSD: INSTALL.linux,v 1.8 2000/05/17 09:51:28 espie Exp $
+$OpenBSD: INSTALL.linux,v 1.9 2001/04/17 20:11:20 aaron Exp $
 
    Linux + OpenBSD: it's possible
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ If you want to grab space from a Windows/DOS partition, use fips.
 Fips20 knows all about FAT32, so windows 95 is no longer a problem.
 
 Other sources of information, especially concerning other BSD systems,
-must be taken with a healthy does of scepticism. OpenBSD definitely
+must be taken with a healthy does of skepticism. OpenBSD definitely
 differs:
 - disklabels can hold up to 16 partitions,
 - type is A6, not A5,
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Older flavors of linux fdisk won't recognize a6 as OpenBSD.
 
 As you can see, my linux setup is very small. I have enough to check how
 things such as gcc work on linux, but my machine is definitely an
-OpenBSD developper's box.
+OpenBSD developer's box.
 
 Get the display to sectors with u, and jot down the corresponding
 information as well:
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ hda15 >
 - the disklabel is detected early, but handled later.
 - disklabel handling should remove duplicates: all partitions that are present
 as both MBR and disklabel partition should get removed silently. (this does
-not seem to work as advertized presently).
+not seem to work as advertised presently).
 - the remaining partitions are checked for consistency.
 
 and here is my linux fstab:
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ netscape to tell it was run from a Linux box, when it is used under
 OpenBSD.
 
 Some programs, for instance maple, do depend on uname answering `Linux'.
-For maple, this is straigthforward: you just have to fudge
+For maple, this is straightforward: you just have to fudge
 /usr/local/maple/bin/maple.system.type to check OpenBSD in the same
 class with Linux.
 

src/etc/etc.i386/INSTALL.mbr

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Here is a summary of what this thing does:
    data to determine the drive being booted from and the location
    of the partition on the disk.
 
-   If no active partition table enty is found, ROM BASIC is
+   If no active partition table entry is found, ROM BASIC is
    entered via INT 18.  All other errors cause a system hang, see
    label HANG.
 

src/etc/etc.i386/INSTALL.os2br

@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ Additional data areas.
 0000:7D84 F7260B00    MUL     WORD PTR [000B]      multiply by sector size
 0000:7D88 03F8        ADD     DI,AX                add to memory address
 0000:7D8A 5A          POP     DX                   restore upper part of LBA
-0000:7D8B 58          POP     AX                   resotre lower part of LBA
+0000:7D8B 58          POP     AX                   restore lower part of LBA
 0000:7D8C 03C3        ADD     AX,BX                add number of sector just
 0000:7D8E 83D200      ADC     DX,+00                  read to LBA
 0000:7D91 2ACB        SUB     CL,BL                decr requested num of sect

src/etc/etc.i386/INSTALL.pt

@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ another DOS FAT:
 
 
 Or in more detail ('n' is the highest cylinder, head or sector
-number number allowed in the indicated field of the CHS)...
+number allowed in the indicated field of the CHS)...
 
 
             +-------------------------------------+