diff --git a/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8 b/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8
index f7cb4e9f2304..51c5dc0906df 100644
--- a/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8
+++ b/sbin/bioctl/bioctl.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: bioctl.8,v 1.3 2007/09/09 13:30:55 bouyer Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: bioctl.8,v 1.4 2007/09/09 16:13:19 wiz Exp $
 .\"	$OpenBSD: bioctl.8,v 1.43 2007/03/20 06:12:11 jmc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Marco Peereboom
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd Sep 9, 2007
+.Dd September 9, 2007
 .Dt BIOCTL 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -72,18 +72,20 @@ The
 .Ar alarm-function
 may be specified as given above,
 or by the first letter only
-(e.g. -a e).
+(e.g.,
+.Fl a Ar e ) .
 .It Fl b Ar channel:target[.lun]
 Instruct the device at
 .Ar channel:target[.lun]
 to start blinking, if there is
 .Xr ses 4
-or
-.Xr safte 4
+.\" or
+.\" .Xr safte 4
 support in the enclosure.
 .It Fl c Ar raidlevel
 Create a
-.Xr softraid 4
+.\" .Xr softraid 4
+softraid
 device of level
 .Ar raidlevel .
 The device must begin with
@@ -99,7 +101,9 @@ is currently marked
 promote it to being a
 .Dq Hot Spare .
 .It Fl h
-Where necessary, produce "human-readable" output.
+Where necessary, produce
+.Dq human-readable
+output.
 Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte,
 Gigabyte, Terabyte, Petabyte, Exabyte in order to reduce the number of
 digits to four or less.
@@ -109,7 +113,8 @@ Enumerate the selected RAID devices.
 Use
 .Ar special
 device list to create within the
-.Xr softraid 4
+.\" .Xr softraid 4
+softraid
 framework.
 Requires
 .Fl c .
@@ -118,40 +123,38 @@ Instruct the device at
 .Ar channel:target[.lun]
 to cease blinking, if there is
 .Xr ses 4
-or
-.Xr safte 4
+.\" or
+.\" .Xr safte 4
 support in the enclosure.
 .It Fl v
 Be more verbose in output.
 .It Ar device
-Select a drive by name (e.g. sd0) or a RAID controller by name (e.g. ami0).
+Select a drive by name (e.g., sd0) or a RAID controller by name (e.g., ami0).
 For operations which will be performed against
 .Xr ses 4
-or
-.Xr safte 4
+.\" or
+.\" .Xr safte 4
 enclosures, it is also possible to directly specify the enclosure name
-(e.g. safte0).
+(e.g., safte0).
 .El
 .Sh EXAMPLES
 The following command, executed from the command line, shows the status of
 the logical drives on the RAID controller:
-.Bd -literal 
+.Bd -literal
 # bioctl -h mfi0
-Volume  Status           Size Device  
+Volume  Status           Size Device
  mfi0 0 Online            74G mfi0    RAID1
-      0 Online            75G 1:0.0   noencl <ATA     WDC WD800JD-75MS1E04>
-      1 Online            75G 1:1.0   noencl <ATA     WDC WD800JD-75MS1E04>
+      0 Online            75G 1:0.0   noencl \*[Lt]ATA     WDC WD800JD-75MS1E04\*[Gt]
+      1 Online            75G 1:1.0   noencl \*[Lt]ATA     WDC WD800JD-75MS1E04\*[Gt]
  mfi0 1 Online           697G mfi0    RAID5
-      0 Online           233G 1:3.0   noencl <ATA     WDC WD2500JS-75N2E04>
-      1 Online           233G 1:2.0   noencl <ATA     WDC WD2500JS-75N2E04>
-      2 Online           233G 1:4.0   noencl <ATA     WDC WD2500JS-75N2E04>
-      3 Online           233G 1:5.0   noencl <ATA     WDC WD2500JS-75N2E04>
+      0 Online           233G 1:3.0   noencl \*[Lt]ATA     WDC WD2500JS-75N2E04\*[Gt]
+      1 Online           233G 1:2.0   noencl \*[Lt]ATA     WDC WD2500JS-75N2E04\*[Gt]
+      2 Online           233G 1:4.0   noencl \*[Lt]ATA     WDC WD2500JS-75N2E04\*[Gt]
+      3 Online           233G 1:5.0   noencl \*[Lt]ATA     WDC WD2500JS-75N2E04\*[Gt]
 .Ed
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr bio 4 ,
-.Xr mfi 4 .
-.Sh BUGS
-the softraid stuff is not available at this time.
+.Xr mfi 4
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm
@@ -162,3 +165,5 @@ The
 .Nm
 interface was written by
 .An Marco Peereboom Aq marco@openbsd.org .
+.Sh BUGS
+The softraid stuff is not available at this time.