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diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index dc21afc0..3b1eeb06 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -271,12 +271,14 @@ filename=str	Fio normally makes up a filename based on the job name,
 		can specify a number of files by separating the names with a
 		':' colon. So if you wanted a job to open /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
 		as the two working files, you would use
-		filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. If the wanted filename does need to
-		include a colon, then escape that with a '\' character. For
-		instance, if the filename is "/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would
-		use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". '-' is a reserved name,
-		meaning stdin or stdout. Which of the two depends on the read/write
-		direction set.
+		filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. On Windows, disk devices are accessed
+		as /dev/sda for the first device (i.e. \Device\HardDisk0\Partition0,
+		/dev/sda1 for the first partition on the first disk etc.  If the 
+		wanted filename does need to include a colon, then escape that with 
+		a '\' character. For instance, if the filename is 
+		"/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". 
+		'-' is a reserved name, meaning stdin or stdout. Which of the 
+		two depends on the read/write direction set.
 
 opendir=str	Tell fio to recursively add any file it can find in this
 		directory and down the file system tree.
@@ -492,6 +494,8 @@ ioengine=str	Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following
 
 			solarisaio Solaris native asynchronous io.
 
+			windowsaio Windows native asynchronous io.
+
 			mmap	File is memory mapped and data copied
 				to/from using memcpy(3).