>Number:         7913
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Error in ncr(4) manpage
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul  4 13:35:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dave Huang
>Organization:
Name: Dave Huang     |   Mammal, mammal / their names are called /
INet: khym@bga.com   |   they raise a paw / the bat, the cat /
FurryMUCK: Dahan     |   dolphin and dog / koala bear and hog -- TMBG
Dahan: Hani G Y+C 23 Y++ L+++ W- C++ T++ A+ E+ S++ V++ F- Q+++ P+ B+ PA+ PL++
>Release:        NetBSD-current as of July 4, 1999
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD dahan.metonymy.com 1.4D NetBSD 1.4D (SPIFF) #299: Sat Jul 3 04:52:50 CDT 1999 khym@dahan.metonymy.com:/usr/src.local/sys/arch/i386/compile/SPIFF i386


>Description:
	The description of the SCSI_NCR_MAX_WIDE option is incorrect.
It's not the maximum bus width in bytes, but in log2 bytes. However,
since the only choices are 0 and 1, I figured it'd be clearer just to
explicitly say what they are, instead of mentioning logarithms...
>How-To-Repeat:
	man 4 ncr
>Fix:
--- /usr/src/share/man/man4/ncr.4	Tue Mar 16 06:10:24 1999
+++ ncr.4	Sun Jul  4 15:21:50 1999
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 .It Cd options SCSI_NCR_MAX_WIDE=integer
 Specifies the maximum
 .Tn SCSI
-bus width, in bytes.
+bus width, with 0 meaning 8 bits and 1 meaning 16 bits.
 Defaults to 1 on chips that support wide
 .Tn SCSI ,
 0 otherwise.

>Audit-Trail:
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